In normal times, a big corporate board seat is a sweet gig. The pay is lavish—often $300,000 a year or more. The schedule is light: quarterly meetings, a smattering of committee calls. If all’s well, ...

Question: My board makes up forms, then tries to make them look “official.” One official-looking fabricated form is called “Censure of Board Director.” The form says we are a nonprofit mutual benefit ...

Just when I think I am going to run out of topics, someone will ask me something I can’t recall writing about. In the past two weeks I’ve been asked my opinion about Executive Directors who want to ...

A divided Chicago Housing Authority board, unable to agree on a permanent executive director, on Monday picked one of its own members to serve on an interim basis. Paul Brady, 41, who has been seen as ...

An outside director, or independent board member, is considered the neutral party on a startup board. They typically have no major investment unlike a venture capitalist who represents their firm.

When the St. Tammany Library Board of Control shared the job posting for a new parish library director earlier this week, it raised some eyebrows at Parish President Mike Cooper's office. The ...