All over the world, the Board of directors currently face extraordinary challenges.

What boards often lack in their diversity are members with Street Credit (points you get for doing something impressive and bold. One can gain street credit in many ways, including, but not limited to, continuing to acquire freshness, constantly hustling, not selling-out, and of course, by making hit records). Perhaps one way to address this issue is to start each board meeting with an episode of Simpsons. Often it is alarming to observe how boards are enclosed in their glass structures without adequate business contact with the outside world.

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