There are many gems in this piece worth underscoring but I want to note the one at the very end — the piece about having a kitchen cabinet that overlaps with your board but is separate. I see this as the missing piece for so many of us who look to our boards for the kind of open conversation and yet in truth npo boards are rarely structured to play this role with care for the leader as a central mission. Lately this is what I’ve been trying to build into any boards I work with but I think there’s so much wisdom in having a separate set of infrastructure and for us to think beyond the npo structures.