{"id":327,"date":"2009-07-17T22:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=327"},"modified":"2024-12-03T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:18:37","slug":"i-didnt-sign-up-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2009\/07\/17\/i-didnt-sign-up-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I didn&#8217;t sign up for this!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"127\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/harvard-business-school\/\">Harvard Business School<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Just a short thought today. I&#8217;ve sat on a couple of&nbsp;boards over the years, and when it comes time to select a board chair most of the discussion is around a person&#8217;s ability to lead a meeting. There are other considerations, but this seems to be the main one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Board Chair Must Step into Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we had a case study in which the dean of a school had already announced his departure when the school&#8217;s president unexpectedly resigned to go to another school. With both positions vacant, guess who was left holding the bag? The <strong>board chair<\/strong>. He was a reluctant chair. What he really wanted was to chair the Property Committee. When the crisis broke, he was in a situation very different from the one he signed up for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many <strong>crisis<\/strong> scenarios in which the board chair is left as the person who must step in and act and speak for a management that cannot do so for itself. 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