
Managing a board of directors is a challenging task that involves collaborating with various personalities at different ages and from all sorts of backgrounds. For example, the average board size in France is 14, followed by 11 in Italy, Spain and Sweden, with the average age of directors being 59, 58, 60 and 60 respectively. This means you typically have a large group of experts, confident in their opinions and convictions, that you have to encourage to work as a team and to consider each others’ views. Given these statistics, and the fact that the board only convenes a few […]