by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 25, 2026
I have been in enough boardrooms to know the difference between the board that talks about trust and the board that builds it. The ones that talk about it usually have a policy. Maybe a code of ethics framed near the front door. A sustainability report with careful...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 20, 2026
There is a category of leader who becomes genuinely interesting to me: the one who builds it before it is required. Not because regulations are coming. Not because the enforcement wave is visible on the horizon. Not because a board member asked about it at the last...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 18, 2026
A board chair I have known for years called me the week the Colorado legislature voted to repeal the law everyone had been preparing for. He was relieved, and he wanted me to share the relief. The deadline that had been sitting on his calendar since last winter, the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 17, 2026
Separating the chairman and chief executive roles does not make a board better at its job. It makes a board feel better about its job. After three decades of governance codes treating an independent chair as the high-water mark of board reform, the evidence for the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 14, 2026
**Founder’s Legend | Touch Stone Publishers | Category 547** *Publication: Day 6 of sequence* — I have spent three decades in rooms where consequential decisions were made. Not the decisions that announced themselves as consequential: the quarterly...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 10, 2026
A few years ago I sat with a team that had built something genuinely impressive. They walked me through their first real AI deployment, and I remember the quiet pride in the room. The model did exactly what they had promised the board it would do. It read the...
