Post by Ricardo Abdoel

Here is something the governance research says clearly, and that rarely gets said clearly in public. Political appointment to supervisory boards is not unique to the Caribbean. It is a feature of governance systems in the United Kingdom, across continental Europe, throughout Latin America, and Asia. The OECD's guidelines on board governance don't argue for its elimination. Neither do I. What the research on board effectiveness consistently argues across contexts is that the appointment itself is not the variable that determines governance quality. The variable that matters is what happens inside the board after the appointment has been made. The culture. The standard. The expectation is that every member, regardless of how they arrived, exercises independent judgment in the room. That gap between arriving and governing well is where Issue 19 begins. Read Issue 19 of Governance · Leadership · The Long Game. — Ricardo · Solmirai Group of Companies Materializing Visions #Solmirai #GoodGovernance #Caribbean #BoardLeadership #ExecutiveEducation #Aruba #Curaçao #Bonaire #SintMaarten #Barbados #TrinidagTobago #Bahamas #Panama #Colombia #Riyadh #Abudhabi #Oman #Doha #Suriname #Guyana #TheLongGame #BoardCulture #BoardIndependence