Boardroom Quotes

“The corporate board oversees the corporate strategy, and the business strategy is underpinned by business capabilities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Create an innovative boardroom with “free atmosphere,” so directors are inquisitive to ask great, tough questions for deepening understanding.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.”

Book:Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Boards need to master risk intelligence to identify both business risks and opportunities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Good boards advise and get all those fundamentals right.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Corporate governance is to make sure that management is doing its job properly.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Governance Digitalization Boardroom

“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing the corporate strategy.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The corporate board should set the tone to “baking in” the vision into the DNA (culture) and drive change proactively.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The true vision is a reflective process of an organization really understanding itself and its purpose to perceive the future of business.”

Book:Digital It: 100 Q&as

Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as

“Strategy blind spots are often created by the lack of future-driven mindset or a systematic approach to form and implement a strategy.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Diversification

“Information and decision-making are intimately connected and interdependent, this is particularly true in the digital era.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

Book:Digital It: 100 Q&as

Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as

“Information as input to the decision-making does not absolutely determine the decision but allows the decision-maker to practice analytical thinking and exercise their judgment.”

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

“Board directors need to work closely and collaboratively with the management to identify opportunities and risks and take the digital journey from good to great.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board updates policies for adapting to the digital new normal for both enforcing the effectiveness of strategy management and harnessing business governance maturity.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board of directors should take an outlier’s lens to criticize the business strategy via questioning wisely.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Innovation Digitalization Boardroom

“An ultra- modern board can set a clear choice among future scenarios that advocate innovation, advancement, and promotes positive behaviors.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business’s strategic planning.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Vision Digitalization Boardroom

“The digital boards today should be informed on what benefit is being delivered by IT and aware of constraints and risks.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Leadership including directorship is crucial to strengthen the business links and weave them to the differentiated business capabilities.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Boardroom Directorship

“Board directors as key strategic decision makers in the organization need to understand the information potential and become IT advocates.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Decision Making Digitalization Boardroom

“Without a clear definition of success, board discussions can become disjointed, with members focusing on different priorities and potentially conflicting agendas. It can also lead to members talking through each other or over each other during meetings, instead of talking with each other. This can lead to inefficient decision-making, missed opportunities, and ultimately, hinder the organization's progress.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Strategy Meetings Hendrith Boardroom Corporate Governance

Book:Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Good strategy requires board members to think beyond the boardroom and recognize and reward employees who demonstrate stewardship behaviors.”

Quotes Strategy Hendrith Smith Hendrith Boardroom Corporate Governance The Board Stewardship Mindset

Book:Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“The decisions we make in the boardroom eventually show themselves in the company's performance.”

Corporate Business Leadership Boardroom Executive Boardroom Meeting Company Performance

Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The boards as top leadership team can no longer avoid, delegate, or ignore the need for technical competency among their ranks.”

Leadership Digitalization Boardroom

“Good policy makes good things easy to do, and bad things hard to do.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Policymakers

“Digital board directors with the right dose of “doubt” are real critical thinkers who can ask deep questions.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Critical Thinking Digitalization Boardroom

“1. Interrupt the interrupters..... If a woman is cut off in conversation, cut off the interruptor: 'Olivia was speaking. Let's let her finish her thought first.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Equity Boardroom Chair

Book:That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

Source: That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together

“To gain digital insight and lead business transformation effortlessly, the digital board directors need to become more information savvy and IT friendly.”

“Many foresightful boards invite CIOs to the big table for bridging gaps and harnessing communications to accelerate digital transformation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Digitalization Boardroom Cio Leadership

“IT savvy boards will have the advantage of pulling enough resources and pushing the technology-enabled business change and innovation.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Information Technology Boardroom

“How deeply the corporate boards can dig and which questions they should ask will directly impact on the success rate of IT investment and the boardroom governance effectiveness.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The board’s IT investment review and strategy oversight help to fill the blind spots and bring the new perspective on improving information system effectiveness and efficiency.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“An IT-friendly board should oversee the business strategy with IT strategy as an integral component.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“Digital leaders including board directors today need to understand that the linear management skills are not sufficient to lead today’s nonlinear digital world with the deep learning curve.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Digitalization Boardroom

“Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Leadership Gaps Boardroom

“The board directors need to gain a deeper understanding of the enterprise in order to be a credible actor in the strategic dialogue.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The digital board directors need to be independent thinkers, unbiased communicators, wise advisors, flexible facilitators, and global leaders these days.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“CIOs should be at the table helping the board and executive colleagues maximize ROI and competitive advantage.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Boardroom Cio Leadership Cio Master

Book:12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices

“Our faces portray the emotions our colleagues and bosses expect. We gladly show those that earn points and brilliantly hide those that do not. Nothing is real about it; it's business and we're supposed to feel okay about it for at least 60 hours per week. If you're lucky, you get used to it. You become highly-skilled at it until you're an invincible corporate giant -- king of a mountain that means very little in the end.”

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Book:Centerpieces

Source: Centerpieces

“The diversity along with deep knowledge of the business will allow board directors to be real “thought partners” with senior management as they consider the longer-term goals beyond quarterly earnings.”

“Each functional leader owns their piece of sub-strategies, but they have to work collaboratively to ensure the cohesive strategy management.”

Book:Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“A solution is nothing if the problem is not perceived.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

Innovation Digital Boardroom

“The board’s “Deep Common Sense” leads toward “Effective Judgment.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as

“The composition of boards should reflect approximately the profile of the company’s stakeholders, such as shareholders, employees, customers, and suppliers.”

Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as