As the cliché goes, the best time to prepare for next quarter’s board meeting is the day after you leave this quarter’s board meeting. That’s when the board’s interests are clear and compelling, and you can harness all the seasoned wisdom and savvy anecdotes you just gleaned from a curated team of experts. Which elements of your plan piqued their interest? What priorities did they consider essential? Where did they push back or what suggestions did they offer?

When a board discerns that you’re a professional team, and that you deeply understand your industry, customers, and stakeholders, you can partner with them as if they’re free consultants.

Then again, for all the energizing immediacy of reporting to an excellent board, even the most dynamic and insightful board discussions are nothing compared to engaging with the three-person Board of our lives. The Board who placed us in our present situation, personally arranged for our education, training, and benefits package, and who allows us to communicate at any time of any day about any topic or situation we face. One member of our Board has even been in our exact shoes. He understands in detail the business of our lives, and He can help us achieve whatever He challenges us to accomplish. 

Our greatest opportunity in life is to honor our Board’s interests by serving our customers extremely well. Customers He frequently referred to as our neighbors.