Governance Structure
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
4 statements about Governance Structure, every show
Johnson: Governance fails when roles are unclear or history is ignored
“A lot of institutions fall down is if it's not clear who is deciding what. The other place where you can fall down is if you have a solution that might be clear But it doesn't even remotely take into consideration the history or the portfolio itself, then the …”
Fenton: Founder Workload Is Unaffected by Investor Base or Board Structure
“Once you start a business and you're working on it, you don't work more or less hard based on the investor base or the governance structure.”
Fenton: Corporate Boards Create a Superstructure of Mistrust for Founders
“And a board represents a governance structure. And so there are many people who, like myself, are highly anti-authoritarian. If we see authority, we immediately don't trust it. And so that's one of the challenges, that you create a structure that has the super…”
Jenkins: Governance structures are the institutional investment industry's Achilles heel
“And my own personal opinion, the governance structure is the Achilles heel of this industry, frankly, that some of the biggest mistakes that some of our peers have made have been because of the governance structures, and because the governance structure has pa…”