Short-sightedness in boardroom decision making can take on many forms, e.g. failure to consider how the decision will be perceived outside the boardroom (optics) or failure to understand how the decision will affect the company over time (precedence). No matter the type of myopia, the impact is consistent: sub-optimal decisions that lead to conflict and public disillusionment. There is an easy-to-implement remedy: a decision sieve that helps boards review a series of questions to make sure they are consistently evaluating their decisions against the organization’s vision, mission, values and strategies and against the perceptions of stakeholders (e.g. employees, shareholders, vendors, …

Wow, it is hard to believe it has been almost four years since Cindy and I founded Tevera Consulting. We want to thank all of our clients for making it exciting and busy. We’ve been blessed to work with great clients and on interesting assignments. We hope the future holds more challenging opportunities. Cindy and I sat down earlier this year and worked on Tevera’s five-year plan. We are excited about growing our current governance, strategy and organizational design practices. We’ve been doing an increased amount of work with start-up and high growth businesses and, as a result, we are …