Building a hard-working board

If your board members are all over-50s who think the job is done when the meeting closes, you are missing out.
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As a board member of the Melbourne contemporary dance organisation Dancehouse, James Ostroburski is on the phone to the CEO two or three times a week, usually for lengthy calls.

He calls to see what is going on, what the challenges are and how he might be able to intervene or add value. ‘My view is that I’m an extension to the senior management team, not just somebody who comes in and out six or eight times a year.’

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