[Foundation-l] Would you consider being on the Board?
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Sun Jun 11 23:53:23 UTC 2006
Just in case anyone might misunderstand the following as suggesting a
conflict between Anthere and myself, I agree with her completely on all
points. :)
Anthere wrote:
> I strongly believe the CEO should not be on the board. It seems to make
> sense in small organisations, but I would say it is not suitable in our
> case.
>
> Doubly when the CEO is not only on the board, but also the chair of that
> board.
>
> And triply (if that term exist) when the CEO not only is the chair of
> the board, but also the foundator of the leading project.
>
> It raises the issue of
> 1) suitability of the CEO (not chosen per his executive abilities in the
> first place)
> 2) availability of the CEO for day to day tasks
> 3) performance assessment of the CEO (since he is giving tasks to
> himself and assessing his performance himself)
> 4) Relevance of the board existence
>
> ant
>
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