One Minute Governance

Jan 08 2025 270 ep. 2 mins 10

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Season 5 is live! New episodes every Monday and Thursday. This season, we’re exploring questions that directors need to *answer*. Are you a director, senior executive, investor, or someone who’s just curious about corporate governance? Tune in for insights about how things work inside and outside the boardroom, based on 20 years of experience and interactions with thousands of directors from around the world. Each episode lasts about one minute and will provide you with questions to ask yourself, your board and your management team, designed to optimize the way your organization makes decisions. Matt Fullbrook is a corporate governance researcher, educator and advisor located in Toronto.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Sound-Up Governance is back on January 20th

Jan 08 2025 3 mins

Head to http://www.groundupgovernance.com for more TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone, this is Matt Fullbrook and I'm back on the Ground-Up Governance platform after a long absence and I've got a new idea. If you're listening to this on a mainstream podcast platform and don't know what I'm talking about, head over to groundupgovernance.com and just start putting poking around. It's the only

252. Season 5 wrap-up

Dec 19 2024 1 mins

OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Here we are at the end of another season of OMG. Invariably, during the process of writing the last episode of a season of the show, I find myself wondering if I’ll do another one. Not because I don’t want to or because I think it’s not worth it. It’s just never clear if I’ll have any more idea

251. What is the point of the question I'm about to ask?

Dec 16 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #49: What is the point of the question I’m about to ask? By proposing this question, I guess I’m basically recommending a bit of cognitive behavioural therapy for directors. I won’t dive into CBT

250. What, specifically, are we going to do better next time?

Dec 12 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #48: What, specifically, are we going to do better next time? I could’ve made this the shortest episode ever by just stating the question and leaving it at that. I suspect it’s obvious what the poin

249. Are we compromising instead of being intentional?

Dec 09 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #46: Are we compromising instead of being intentional? Don’t get me wrong: compromise is a useful hack. Both in the “let’s make everyone equally unhappy” sense and the “let’s shoot down the

248. Is the way we do things valuable for our owners/members?

Dec 05 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #46: Is the way we do things valuable for our owners/members? We’ve said before on the show – including a few times this season – that questions about owners or shareholders or members or whatever

247. Is the way we do things working for management?

Dec 02 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #45: Is the way we do things working for management? Today’s question kinda revisits what we talked about back in episodes 214, 215 and 216, except at this point we’ve answered a lot more questions

246. Is the way we do things working for my fellow board members?

Nov 27 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #44: Is the way we do things working for my fellow board members? I did a session a few months ago with a group of board chairs of cool complex organizations. I made a case to them – similar to the on

245. Is the way we do things working for me?

Nov 25 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #43: Is the way we do things working for me? I’ve said before on OMG and elsewhere that your work as a director isn’t about you. You’re serving others. Nonetheless, you’re still a human being wi

244. What are we excited about?

Nov 21 2024 1 mins

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook. TRANSCRIPT: Question #42: What are we excited about? I know that boardrooms aren’t typically environments that provoke much excitement. And I’m not trying to pretend that getting excited is really the point of a board�