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

08/31/2026

Technology evolves exponentially, but governance fails when room dynamics stay static.

Directors face faster tech cycles, new risks, and mounting pressure to adapt. But the hardest part of governance is still human:

• Questioning assumptions
• Changing your mind when the facts change
• Challenging without damaging trust
• Staying curious when certainty feels safer
• Adapting before the organization forces you to

That’s the uncomfortable contrast Babs Ryan — Board Director, Audit & Investment Committees, $800M Revenue Patent — names in her endorsement of Jim Brown’s *The Imperfect Board Member*.

The biggest governance risk may not be how fast AI changes. It may be how slowly the board does.

📖 Upgrade your boardroom contribution with the new 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* by USA Today Bestselling Author Jim Brown (*The Imperfect CEO*), featuring a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

🛒 Available for pre-order now! Link in comments.

08/31/2026

Growth creates blind spots faster than most boards realize.

As companies scale, complexity compounds:

• Decisions get harder
• Silos form
• Risk becomes less visible
• Leaders get closer to the problem — sometimes too close to see it clearly

That’s where a strong board adds real value.

Verne Harnish, Founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and *Scaling Up*, puts it well:

*”The best boards help leaders see what they may be too close to see.”*

That’s exactly what Jim Brown’s *The Imperfect Board Member* is designed to help boards do: ask better questions, challenge assumptions, spot risk earlier, and support sustainable growth.

📖 Upgrade your boardroom contribution with the new 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* by USA Today Bestselling Author Jim Brown (*The Imperfect CEO*), featuring a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

🛒 Available for pre-order now! Link in comments.

As complexity grows, the board’s value is perspective.

08/28/2026

In an age of AI and market volatility, a board’s role comes down to two words: Direct and Protect.

When disruption spikes, the greatest boardroom risk isn’t a lack of technical expertise — it’s directors drifting from high-level stewardship into operational micromanagement.

Global Board Director and former CEO Caroline Codsi (Korn Ferry Consulting) on why modern governance requires behavioral discipline over rigid policy:

“Governance is fundamentally about people, relationships, and judgment. A board’s role is to direct and protect... exercising the discipline not to drift into management. Great boards are built on trust, humility, courage, and the willingness to engage in the conversations that matter most.”

No director sees every blind spot. Strong governance happens when the board becomes wiser together.

📖 Upgrade your boardroom contribution with the new 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* by USA Today Bestselling Author Jim Brown (*The Imperfect CEO*), featuring a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

🛒 Available for pre-order now! Link in comments.

08/27/2026

Is your board solving root dynamic problems — or just treating symptoms?

Even experienced directors face recurring challenges: unclear roles, difficult conversations, weak accountability, and the tension between supporting the CEO and challenging constructively.

That’s why Alisa Cohn, Executive Coach and author of *From Start-Up to Grown-Up*, describes Jim Brown’s *The Imperfect Board Member* as:

*”An accessible, sensitive, and practical approach to building a better board.”*

That practicality is the point. Good governance isn’t about perfection. It’s about having the frameworks to recognize problems early and improve how the board works together.

📖 Upgrade your boardroom contribution with the new 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* by USA Today Bestselling Author Jim Brown (*The Imperfect CEO*), featuring a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

🛒 Available for pre-order now! Link in comments.

08/26/2026

Uncertainty doesn’t expose weak strategy first. It exposes weak governance.

When conditions change, strong boards create what organizations need most:

• Clarity
• Trust
• Judgment
• Constructive challenge

Scott Stirrett, Founder of Venture for Canada and author of *The Uncertainty Advantage*, puts it well:

”Strong boards create the clarity, trust, and judgment organizations need to grow through uncertainty.”

That’s exactly the work Jim Brown explores in *The Imperfect Board Member*.

Great boards don’t remove uncertainty. They help leaders navigate it without losing alignment, trust, or judgment.

📖 Elevate your boardroom contribution with the new 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* by USA Today Bestselling Author Jim Brown (*The Imperfect CEO*), featuring a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

🛒 Available for pre-order now! Link in comments.

08/25/2026

Board governance isn’t tested in the textbook. It’s tested when the room gets uncomfortable.

When a director challenges you.
When a CEO talks too long.
When tension rises.
When the room needs someone to ask the question others are avoiding.

Those are the moments that reveal whether a board is simply experienced or truly effective.

Most governance books describe what good boards look like. Michael Useem, Faculty Director of the McNulty Leadership Program at Wharton and co-author of *Boards That Lead*, points to something rarer — a book that puts you inside the actual moment a board member has to decide whether to speak up, push back, or stay quiet. Then it hands you the tools to handle that moment better next time.

That’s the difference between a framework and a rehearsal.

*The Imperfect Board Member* — 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni — is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

Jim Brown is also the USA Today bestselling author of *The Imperfect CEO*.

📖 *The Imperfect Board Member* (20th Anniversary Edition) — available now for pre-order on Amazon. Link in comments.

08/25/2026

A unanimous “yes” in a church board meeting might be the most dangerous vote in the room.

In the latest issue of *The Imperfect Church Leader*, Jim Brown explores the hidden cost of artificial harmony — when church boards confuse politeness with unity, and silence with support.

Sometimes the healthiest thing a board can do is ask the harder question.

A board that cannot disagree well hasn’t found peace. It has postponed the argument.

Jim is the USA Today bestselling author of *The Imperfect CEO* and author of the updated 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member*.

📩 Subscribe to *The Imperfect Church Leader* for practical insights on healthier church leadership, trust, governance, and organizational health. Link in comments.

08/24/2026

A board can have exceptional people and still struggle to govern effectively.

Because board effectiveness isn’t only about who sits around the table. It’s about how they work together once they get there.

That’s exactly what Suzan Morno-Wade — Board Director, Compensation Committee Chair, and former Fortune 500 CHRO — recognized in Jim Brown’s *The Imperfect Board Member*:

“The real differentiator is our behavior, including how we challenge, listen, show vulnerability, and use judgment with the CEO and with one another.”

That’s at the heart of the book. *The Imperfect Board Member* gives directors a practical framework for strengthening the human side of governance — how boards build trust, challenge constructively, clarify accountability, exercise judgment, and make better leadership and succession decisions together.

Great governance requires more than the right structure. It requires the right disciplines around the table.

Jim Brown, USA Today Bestselling author, just released the updated 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member*, with a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni.

📖 Available now for pre-order on Amazon. Link in comments.

08/21/2026

Boards rarely fail because the structure is missing. They fail because the behaviors are weak.

Most organizations spend endless hours redesigning committees, charters, and agendas. But governance breakdowns rarely stem from structural flaws. They happen when behavioral discipline collapses under pressure.

Former TMX Group CEO Barbara Stymiest notes that real boardroom impact isn’t found in governance theory. It’s built in daily behavioral ex*****on.

She describes the book’s Seven Disciplines as something rarer than a framework: “a working vocabulary — something a chair can invoke mid-meeting when alignment is sliding into politeness, or when a board has confused oversight with control.”

Governance excellence is built in the habits around the table:

• Asking the hard question
• Listening without defensiveness
• Challenging constructively
• Holding one another accountable
• Staying focused on stewardship

Structure matters. Behavior determines whether the structure actually works.

📖 Following his USA Today Bestseller, *The Imperfect CEO*, Jim Brown’s seminal guide for directors is back!

Pre-order the expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of *The Imperfect Board Member* (with a brand-new foreword by Patrick Lencioni) on Amazon today. Link in comments.

08/20/2026

Great boards are defined by relational discipline, not just rules.

Most governance frameworks tell directors what to do. Few explain what actually determines whether they do it well — the trust, candor, and willingness to disagree without dividing the room.

When board governance fails, it’s rarely because directors lacked financial acumen. It’s usually because the human dynamics in the room broke down.

As former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly notes, sustainable governance requires combining foundational principles with real-world human dynamics.

If you’ve ever sat on a board where the structure was fine but the relationships weren’t, this distinction will land immediately.

That’s the gap *The Imperfect Board Member* (20th Anniversary Edition) by Jim Brown, with a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni, is built to close.

Jim Brown is also the USA Today bestselling author of *The Imperfect CEO*.

📖 *The Imperfect Board Member* (20th Anniversary Edition) — available now for pre-order on Amazon. Link in comments.

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