Governance Is a Decision System, Not a Reporting System
from Michael Martino Show Hosted by Michael
Let me leave you with three questions to take into your next governance meeting: What decision are we making today? If nobody can answer that in a sentence before the meeting starts, cancel it and send the deck. Who owns the benefit — and is that person in the room? Programs deliver capability. Only the business delivers benefit. If your benefit owner is a program director, you don't have a benefit owner. You have an optimist. What have we stopped? A program that has never stopped anything has never made a real choice. To close off, the way you govern teaches your organization how to behave. If your governance rewards green, you'll get green. If it rewards escalation, you'll get honesty. If it rewards evidence, you'll get evidence. The people in your program are watching what gets rewarded in that room, and they're adjusting. Governance isn't just how you steer the program, it's how you build the culture that runs the thing after the program is gone.
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