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Boards Should Build Diversity
For Maximum Performance
Varied perspectives can improve fundamental management decisions
By Eric Vieland
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
A healthy board of directors serves an important function that an individual manager, no matter how skilled, could not. It provides a reservoir of diverse knowledge and experience, deeper and broader than that which an organization can muster on a daily basis.
Many boards will tend to drift with little diversity, since it is usually easier and more comfortable for a board to identify new members who are much like the existing members. But diversification is an important process, and a rewarding one for organizations that pursue it diligently.
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