Practical guidance, real stories, and straight answers for the people who keep boards running.
Board members are not always right about minutes. Your job is not to make everyone happy. It's to produce an accurate legal record of what the board decided.
June 30, 2026
Maybe. "Nobody has complained" is not the same as "this is correct." You may be faithfully reproducing a format that was never quite right to begin with.
June 28, 2026
Yes, you can change their minds. The argument they're making is about what happens to the recording afterward, not the recording itself. That's a solvable problem.
June 26, 2026
AI can help you significantly. It cannot replace you entirely. Not yet. And the bigger problem here isn't the technology.
June 24, 2026
He had been on the job six weeks when he found the minutes. Eight pages of careful legal hedging that told him nothing about whether the board was doing its job.
June 22, 2026
No. A Zoom summary is a technology product. Board minutes are a legal document. They are not the same thing, and one cannot substitute for the other.
June 20, 2026
She sat down after lunch to finish the minutes and looked up to find it was dark outside. Four pages. Eight hours. One Sunday afternoon that simply disappeared.
June 18, 2026
She said “sure” when the ED asked her to take the minutes. Looking back, that may have been the last moment she felt confident.
June 15, 2026