The Inconvenient Truth: The most powerful person in your boardroom may not be the chair or the chief executive — it may be the person who controls the minutes

Governance codes and companies acts around the world agree on one point boardrooms keep quietly ignoring: the board secretary answers to the board, not to management There is a small sentence, heard in boardrooms on every continent, that can expose a very large governance problem: the board secretary reports to the chief executive. Administratively, that statement may contain a practical…