The Mushroom Board: Don't Be Kept in the Dark.

AuthorCagan, Dennis
PositionBOARDBOOK

Have you ever been on a "mushroom" board of directors?

While the reference about being "treated like a mushroom" (kept in the dark and fed--let's say manure] is typically used to refer to employees working for a very uncommunicative or dictatorial manager, the same analogy aptly refers to a board of directors run by an authoritative chairman or CEO. If you are or have ever been a board director and have never been on a mushroom board, you are indeed fortunate.

These boards are generally very pleasant experiences--until the hammer falls and the deception falls. By all appearances the...

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