Abstract
Imagine you’re climbing the vertical element of a “T.” There comes a point, a “hinge moment,” when you emerge from the vertical and enter the horizontal. This is what happens when you emerge from the top of your functional silo into the board milieu. Your horizons abruptly broaden.
A board is an organism not a process: the more you understand that, and show you understand it, the more attractive a potential director you are likely to be.
Baroness Hogg, chairman, 3i plc
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© 2008 Peninah Thomson, Jacey Graham and Tom Lloyd
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Thomson, P., Graham, J., Lloyd, T. (2008). The unwritten rules. In: A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583955_5
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