STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 19 November 2014

[Demeter]

3. I survived yet another board meeting...

The good news: the amount of time spent in board meetings has been cut in half this year! We have made tremendous progress resolving long-standing issues and making them go away!

Unlike previous boards, now we have several people who know how to do governance properly (mostly, or at least they are willing to learn) and they are working on it diligently. It's so nice not to be the only one....saves a lot of frustration. There's still the occasional loose cannon, the slacker, the totally misplaced, but it's no longer the whole damn board.

The bad news: I still get digestive upsets and there are several difficult issues still to resolve, although we now have a structure of process, purpose and precedence, and an expectation that it will be followed. (Unless, of course, I'M doing it, in which case the micro-managers break out in hives and decide to bring everything to a complete mess, while insulting me. Hence the pepto-bismal chugging).

I've given random thought to taking this kind of reorganization / house cleaning / reformation gig on the road into a larger venue: the city government, or maybe the state legislature, or even the party, but frankly, there's still too much to do here at home, I'm going to hit 60, I still have to make a living of some sort, so that's not in the cards for me...yet. Whether I would be foolish enough to attempt any such thing at a later date...who knows?

Necessity is a mother, as they say. (Or alternatively, mothers take care of necessities).