If It’s Only for the Board, It’s Not for the Business

If your team only wakes up for the board meeting, you're not leading, you’re performing.

Real work happens in the shadows. These two spending time together at that small windowless meeting room. That lunch at the canteen. That walk back where someone figures out something key. Not on the slides prepared for the MBR, the SteerCo or the board meeting.

Managing to please the board, investors and lenders is easy. Building something that outlives you is hard. That’s why most don’t do it.

The game isn’t beating last quarter. It’s making sure you still matter five years from now.

Short-termism feels safe. Until you realize you’re always one report away from irrelevance.

Skip the theatre. Play the long game. Build for permanence.