Sound-Up Governance

May 01 2024 113 ep. 10 mins 1
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The real impact of corporate governance isn't about compliance or structure or policies, it's about the conditions that impact decision-making. Sound-Up Governance features fresh perspectives to help boards and executives to be a bit better tomorrow than they were yesterday.

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44. Executive compensation is probably broken (feat. Matt talking to himself)

May 01 2024 20 mins  
Matt spends some time griping about/trolling conventional thinking on executive compensation.Originally published August 25, 2023Matt refers to an old paper he wrote in 2013 - check it out hereThe Larcker/Tayan ECGI paper is here

43. Why inclusion is *the* leadership superpower (feat. Rose Genele)

Apr 24 2024 24 mins  
Entrepreneur Rose Genele talks with Matt about what inclusion really means and why it may be a governance superpower.Originally published August 21, 2024

42. Governance advice for entrepreneurs from someone who's been through it (feat. Soodeh Farokhi)

Apr 19 2024 24 mins  
Tech entrepreneur, Soodeh Farokhi, talks about the weirdness of corporate governance in the startup world.Originally published August 4, 2023

41. Giving business leaders permission to be rebels (feat. Lisa Oldridge)

Mar 27 2024 26 mins  
Lisa Oldridge explains to Matt that anti-woke capitalism is worse than a false dichotomy, among lots of other awesome bits of wisdom.Originally published July 28, 2023

40. Could auditors be governance superheroes? (feat. Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid)

Mar 20 2024 27 mins  
Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid chats with Matt about the potential for auditors to be WAY more useful to boards, and a bunch of other awesome governance stuff.Originally published on July 14th, 2023

39. SnoopGPT on staying out of "the weeds" and the connection between governance and performance (feat. ChatGPT)

Mar 13 2024 21 mins  
Another conversation with ChatGPT (in the voice of Snoop Dogg) on how boards can stay out of the weeds, among other fun governance topics.Originally published on July 7th, 2023

38. Getting oriented around the state of ESG and AI and stuff (feat. Matt talking to himself)

Mar 06 2024 23 mins  
If you've ever wanted to hear Matt talk to himself about the evolution of ESG and AI in the governance space, your dreams have come true!Originally published June 30th, 2023

37. Going from status quo to good governance (feat. Andrew Escobar)

Feb 28 2024 28 mins  
Matt talks with Andrew Escobar about turning a fish into good governance (gotta listen for it to make sense)Originally published on June 16, 2023

36. Is a board's role really about oversight? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

Feb 21 2024 19 mins  
Andrew Escobar is back to talk about why it's so hard for boards to be "strategic".Originally published June 9, 2023

Definition #68 - Skills Matrix

Feb 18 2024 4 mins  
Each week, we will release two illustrated definitions of corporate governance jargon in order of increasing complexity. In this instalment we have the definition of "skills matrix". Check the episode thumbnail for an illustration by Nate Schmold.Originally published Jun 26, 2023