Consent Agenda- Finding Time for Your Board to Discuss What Matters

To free the board's time for discussing matters the board can actually have an effect upon (i.e. the future), a consent agenda is a tool that eliminates as much as ½ hour or more of reviewing what has happened in the past - things the board can do nothing about. Source: Creating the Future


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