Bloom: Effective boards require advance updates to focus entirely on strategy
Sahil Bloom · Sahil Bloom Gives You a Plan for 2026 · Dec 15, 2025 · at 22:06
Sahil Bloom reflects on lessons learned from his years working in private equity regarding meeting design and strategy.
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“The structure of board meetings when well done, which was The CEO and the board and the team would send around like maybe a week in advance a deck that was basically the business update and all of the key information about the business. And then the meeting itself, when everyone was in the room together was entirely focused on the like forward looking, most critical decisions that needed to be made and debated because what would happen in the absence of that was you'd get into the meeting and people would just be like updating you on the metrics and the numbers for the entire thing. And you'd get no time on the key strategic decisions.”
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