Small Company Boards Are Getting Younger, and More Demanding
Board seats at small and mid-sized companies were long treated as honors. Rising liability, activist attention and operational complexity are turning them back into jobs.
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Pay Transparency Changes What Managers Are Allowed to Say
Disclosure laws were written to affect job postings. Their most significant effect has been inside the building, on conversations managers were never trained to have.
The CEO Sabbatical Stops Being a Confession
A planned executive absence used to read as weakness or exit. Boards are learning to treat it as a stress test the organization is supposed to pass.