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Article: WHAT ABOUT GOSSIPY BOARD MEMBERS?(REAL ESTATE WEEKLY)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 26, 1997
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Byline: G. ROBERT KIRKLAND and MICHAEL INMAN
Q. We have a couple of board members who tend to go out to their particular constituents in the community and talk about what happened at the board meeting and who said what to whom about what or whom. That conduct often results in the fostering of ill feelings about other board members by these constituents. This leads to disharmony and often lack of progress on different issues.
What can we do to get these board members to ``button up'' and respect the need for some level of confidentiality on the part of board members? These offending members often take things out of context and engage in selective ...