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Board Evaluations Are Broken — And the Governance Industry Knows It

Governance board evaluations measure confidence, not competence. Here's what the research shows — and what rigorous governance evaluation actually requires.

Jim Crocker

May 318 min read

Three structural problems have made genuine director self-evaluation nearly impossible. Two have always been true. The third one just changed — and it changes everything.

Why most director self-evaluations are bad for good governance — and how to fix it

Here's the problem that rarely gets named: the industry's reliance on scoring scales wasn't just a design choice. It was a technical ceiling.

Jim Crocker

May 144 min read