What happens when for-purpose and for-profit governance consultants and training providers become so entwined with common-practice systems and requirements they pursue their own interests over those of the orgs they support, or what those organisations are trying to achieve? This is the governance industrial complex, and the subject of my latest ‘and another thing’ vlog.
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This episode draws from or references:
- Nonprofit Boards and Their Relevance in Governance: An Invitation to Engage by Ruth McCambridge in NonProfit Quarterly
- Problem Boards or Board Problem? by William P. Ryan, Richard P. Chait, and Barbara E. Taylor in NonProfit Quarterly
- The Board Futurist
- We must all think about sunsetting, not just foundations by Vu Le in NonProfit AF
- The KPMG scandal: We have seen this show before by Josh Bornstein in The New Daily
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