Perhaps this is a bad idea, but it has occurred to me that if I were a board member, I would want to quite frequently have confidential conversations with randomly selected employees.
This is true whether we adopt my original idea that each board member keeps what they learn from these conversations entirely to themselves, or Ben’s better proposed modification that it’s confidential but can be shared with the whole board.
Perhaps this is a bad idea, but it has occurred to me that if I were a board member, I would want to quite frequently have confidential conversations with randomly selected employees.
I suspect “confidential within the board” will be much more useful.
Actually, I think Paul gets it right. I think to be effective Boards needs information that doesn’t come to them through the CEO and Management team.
This is true whether we adopt my original idea that each board member keeps what they learn from these conversations entirely to themselves, or Ben’s better proposed modification that it’s confidential but can be shared with the whole board.