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# Resetting the Board Agenda for a Changing World

Directors & Boards argues that most board agendas were designed for a world of stable geopolitics and incremental change that no longer exists, and must be rebuilt from the outside in around seven converging forces reshaping governance. The chair and lead director's core role is to curate the quality of discussion, prevent the agenda from being captured by management, and ensure the most valuable — and least routine — items receive substantive time. For SEA founders and scale-up CEOs, this piece provides an immediately actionable diagnostic for whether their board agenda is genuinely forward-facing or merely reactive compliance theatre.

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Directors & Boards (https://www.directorsandboards.com/articles/governance/resetting-the-board-agenda-for-a-changing-world/)

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