Direct representation of external stakeholders in boardrooms can be thorny - how much does it matter?

The biggest bottleneck to board diversity is the slow pace of board renewal.  Is it really such a big problem?

I'm all for age diversity on boards, but sometimes I wonder if young directors - or any new directors, for that matter - really know what they're getting themselves into.

Finding the courage to explore big and difficult topics can help your board to achieve great things.

It's difficult enough finding good directors in the first place, but building a good compensation committee is a whole other thing...

I worry sometimes that the board is a bit out of the loop on executive pay.

I think boards could use executive compensation as a tool to align CEO interests with those of a broad range of stakeholders.

The huge dollar amounts of CEO pay are impossible to ignore, but are they really the most important issue?

It turns out that we don't know how low CEO pay can go before having negative consequences...

Executive compensation takes up a huge amount of bandwidth in boardrooms.  Why haven't we figured out how to do it right yet?