CHAPTER 12
Are You Ready to Serve on a Board?
Editor’s note: If your calendar and commitments in your working life were too full to carve out some time for board service, retirement can be a great time to put your skills, expertise, and experience to good use for a nonprofit or corporate board.
Corporate boards are under increasing pressure to diversify their ranks—adding more women and minorities, as well as executives with different cultural and functional backgrounds—to better represent the people their organizations employ and serve. At the same time, the bar for “board readiness” has never been higher: Directors are scrutinized for their ability to understand more complex businesses, ...
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