board frameworks leadership 
Paul G. Silva
APRIL 1, 2025
As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. Many founders would leave board meetings with lengthy to-do lists. What are the biggest risks to the company?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” I see this in cases where sometimes board members don’t want to take on the “Pottery Barn Rule” that if you break it, you fix it.
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Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
The 4 states of an engineering team is a mental model that resonated with me, and I think it provides a framework for leadership teams and boards to understand the state of a developer team. The state of an eng team can be opaque from the outside, and this framework illuminates the status in a simple way.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2010
I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. And few people in my experience do this well so many board meetings wander. But in leadership and entrepreneurism the top-down approach will be the right solution more often than not. And if data is required then I apply actual data to my conclusions.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2016
It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda. Is she getting enough board exposure? Is she feeling motivated?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 17, 2011
I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 8, 2010
If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. But in the end they know how to put the big wins on the board. They’re unmanageable. Enough said.
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