Collaborative Leadership, 2nd Edition

9Collaborative Leaders in the Boardroom

Leaders need to work with Boards

Even within their own organizations, leaders rarely have complete autonomy over all the decisions that they make. In every organization there are stakeholders to manage, staff to engage and colleagues to get aligned to the leader’s agenda. Most organizations have designed their governance structures to provide the right checks and balances, ensuring that individual leaders’ decision making does not go unchallenged – sometimes with varying degrees of success! In PLCs the Board is the ultimate controlling element of the governance structure and no senior leader can avoid having to influence and interact with the members of this group in order to get their business strategy ...