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OrgHealth OrgHealth offers consulting and coaching for senior leadership teams who are ready to become uncommonly effective through organizational health.

OrgHealth is a Canadian firm with 25+ years of governance and senior leadership consulting expertise.

10/13/2026

*More information doesn’t always create better governance. Better judgment does.*

As *Colleen Brown*, public company director and former board chair and CEO, puts it, the goal is to reach “simplicity on the far side of complexity.”

Strong boards don’t just process more data. They identify what matters, ask better questions, and maintain independent judgment without drifting into management.

📘 *The Imperfect Board Member: 20th Anniversary Edition* — a * #1 Amazon Bestseller* with a new foreword by *Patrick Lencioni* — is available now on Amazon.

10/13/2026

When authority concentrates in a family business, governance gets personal.

Succession, legacy, emotional conflict, and board independence can quickly become enterprise risks.

As *Doug Baumoel**notes, *The Imperfect Board Member* offers a human-centered governance framework built for these realities.

📘 The * #1 Amazon bestselling 20th Anniversary Edition*, with a new foreword by *Patrick Lencioni*, is available now.

10/13/2026

Seeing “BRILLIANT!” noted three times in a book review from an executive leader you deeply respect is about as high an honor as it gets!

Immensely grateful for John Pearson’s (President, John Pearson Associates, Inc.) review and ongoing support of the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Imperfect Board Member, with the new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

When we set out to update and expand this edition, the goal was simple: give board members, chairs, and executive leaders practical, human-centered tools to build high-trust boardrooms in an increasingly complex world.

Thank you so much for reading, reviewing, and helping spread the word!

10/12/2026

*Perfection is an illusion. Psychological safety is a strategy.*

As *Amy Edmondson* of Harvard Business School notes, strong leaders trade the pressure to appear perfect for the harder work of *learning, listening, and leading**

When leaders create psychological safety, people speak up, learn faster, and make better decisions.

📘 *The Imperfect CEO* by *Jim Brown* — a *USA TODAY Bestseller*, with a foreword by *Stephen M. R. Covey* — is available now on Amazon.

10/12/2026

Knowing your board responsibilities is not the same as practicing good governance.

As *Lale Saral Develioğlu* notes, the real work happens in the everyday behaviors: trust, candid dialogue, constructive challenge, and strong relationships.

*Governance becomes real when responsibilities become behavior.*

📘 *The Imperfect Board Member: 20th Anniversary Edition* — a * #1 Amazon Bestseller*, with a new foreword by *Patrick Lencioni* — is available now.

10/12/2026

Twenty years ago, I wrote a short fable about a board in trouble.

It wasn’t meant to be a bestseller. It was meant to give directors a framework for the part of governance most books skip: the human dynamics that make boards healthy or quietly dysfunctional.

Just two days after its launch, the 20th Anniversary Edition of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 hit number one in Corporate Governance on Amazon.

A lot has changed over twenty years. Boards face a different world. Faster pace. Greater complexity. AI risk, culture oversight, stakeholder expectations that can shift in a news cycle.

What hasn’t changed is what actually breaks boards: the conversation no one wants to start, the misalignment that compounds quietly, the trust that erodes before anyone names it.

The book was written for that. It still is.

Thank you to everyone who ordered a copy. And to Patrick Lencioni, who wrote the foreword for this edition: it means more than I can say.

10/09/2026

Twenty years ago, board experience was often defined by title and tenure. Today, that’s not enough.

Modern directors need *judgment, agility, EQ, and the ability to challenge without overstepping*.

As *Helen Pitcher OBE* notes, today’s NED must understand the *total enterprise* and act as a true thought partner to management.

📘 *The Imperfect Board Member: 20th Anniversary Edition* — a * #1 Amazon Bestseller*, with a new foreword by *Patrick Lencioni* — is available now.

10/09/2026

The best governance books don’t just get read. They get passed around the boardroom.

Janet Cooke, a Management Consulting and Team Building professional, isn’t just reading the 20th Anniversary Edition of Jim Brown’s *The Imperfect Board Member*. She’s buying copies for the directors she works with.

If you advise boards, sit on one, or chair one, think about who comes to mind. One book, handed to the right person at the right time, can change how a board talks to itself.

Stronger boards are rarely built through individual learning alone. They improve when directors share a common language for judgment, trust, challenge, role clarity, and stewardship.

Shared principles create better conversations. Better conversations create better governance.

📘 The 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member*, now a #1 Best Seller in Corporate Governance on Amazon, is available now, with a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

It follows Jim Brown’s USA Today bestseller, *The Imperfect CEO*, and gives advisors, directors, and executives a practical framework for stronger governance.

📌 Working with a board or leadership team that needs deeper alignment? Share this post or send a copy to the directors in your network.

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10/08/2026

No director sees everything. That’s not a weakness. It’s where good governance begins.

When board members feel pressure to act as all-knowing experts, ego takes over. Questions get buried, blind spots expand, and discussions turn into defensive posturing instead of problem-solving.

Great board leadership starts with a different premise: intellectual humility.

As Marc O. Stöckli, author of *Make Boards Work*, recently noted:

“Jim Brown starts where good board work starts: no director sees everything. In my own book I call it the beginner’s mind. Jim calls it imperfection, and builds on it seven disciplines that any board can practice. Twenty years on, his fable still reads like last month’s board meeting.”

Two governance authors, writing separately, reached the same starting point: admit what you can’t see. A director who does that asks better questions, listens harder, and leans on the people around the table.

📘 The 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member*, now a #1 Best Seller in Corporate Governance on Amazon, is available now, with a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

It follows Jim Brown’s USA Today bestseller, *The Imperfect CEO*, and gives boards, chairs, and executive teams a practical framework for turning imperfection into strength.

📌 Pass this to a Board Chair, CEO, or director who believes good boardroom judgment starts with humility.

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10/08/2026

“A seat on the board is not a privilege of power and perquisites. It is a position of responsibility, accountability, and trust.”

When boardrooms focus only on short-term commercial wins, they miss the bigger job: building an enduring institution.

Dr. Anil K Khandelwal, Former Chairman & Managing Director of Bank of Baroda and Dena Bank, and bestselling Penguin author, calls out this exact transition:

“The Imperfect Board Member is a seminal and deeply grounded work whose insights remain strikingly relevant two decades after its first publication. A Board must help a company transcend commercial success and evolve into an enduring institution by nurturing intangible assets such as leadership, culture and organisational character.”

If you’re leading a company, serving as an independent director, or preparing your board for the future, building an enduring institution takes intention.

📘 The 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member*, now a #1 Best Seller in Corporate Governance on Amazon, is available now, with an all-new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

It follows Jim Brown’s USA Today bestseller, *The Imperfect CEO*, and gives directors, chairs, and executive teams the disciplines to make governance a lasting advantage.

📌 Pass this along to a Board Chair, CEO, or director committed to building an enduring institution, not just managing quarterly performance.

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