Sid Sijbrandij: GitLab board meetings include a 45-minute closed session
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GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij explains how GitLab manages its board meeting agenda between open sessions and CEO performance evaluations.
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“Those of us are one and a half hours open session, and then about 45 minutes closed session. So you, it's not five minutes you should do a closed session. You should do it for 45 minutes and then about 30 should be with the CEO and then 15 without the CEO to eval, evaluate her performance.”
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