Wanting a board seat does not mean assuming that you know better than the current managers—only that you have distinct and worthwhile views that will add to the discussion that takes place in board meetings. This may be true even if you know worse than the current managers.
Is the idea that someone might think that current managers are wrongly failing to listen to them, but if forced to listen, would accept good ideas and reject bad ones? That seems plausible, though the more irrational you think the current managers are in the relevant ways, the more you should expect your influence to be through control rather than contributing to the discourse. Overall this seems like a decent alternative hypothesis.
Wanting a board seat does not mean assuming that you know better than the current managers—only that you have distinct and worthwhile views that will add to the discussion that takes place in board meetings. This may be true even if you know worse than the current managers.
Is the idea that someone might think that current managers are wrongly failing to listen to them, but if forced to listen, would accept good ideas and reject bad ones? That seems plausible, though the more irrational you think the current managers are in the relevant ways, the more you should expect your influence to be through control rather than contributing to the discourse. Overall this seems like a decent alternative hypothesis.