Many scoff at Larry Lessig. They say he is an optimist, out of touch with reality. But what is it that is said about the people who ultimately change the world? “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”- Ghandi Larry Lessig, if you don’t already know [...]
Tag Archives | Governance
Watching HP Board Situation is Like Watching a Slow Bleed-Out
The New York Times Saturday quotes Patrick McGurn, special counsel for Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), who states that “shareholder efforts to remove directors in uncontested elections rarely succeed or come close, even in egregious circumstances.” In 2012, there were elections for 17,081 director nominees at U.S. corporations. According to ISS, just 61 of those nominees [...]
What Cory Booker is Teaching us about 21st Century Leadership
This week, Mayor Booker is living on a “food stamp” budget to raise awareness of food insecurity. For those of you that don’t know of him, Cory Booker is an American politician who is currently serving as the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, first elected in 2006. He caught my attention when Mark Zuckerberg, who [...]
5 Steps To Reach the Boardroom
This was a post that I did for my friends at Women 2.0. It’s meant as career advice and a way to #changetheratio in the long-run. Once again, the topic of women on Boards is getting play. Most of Facebook’s 800 Million users are women, but all of its seven directors are men. It’s such [...]