Why good minute taking is key for cleaning up culture of corruption
Faithful recording of boardroom meetings and adherence to practices around the process ensure there is no room for falsehoods and trickery
As scandal after scandal is uncovered in SA, as we witness crisis after crisis and deepening corruption, the name of the game is blame. It’s always someone else’s fault. Secrets co-conspirators believed were safe are being spilled and what transpired in corridors and parked cars is now being revealed. We learn of instances where people recording the minutes of meetings were told either to leave the room or not record what was being said. We hear also of circulated draft minutes being amended, resulting in an inaccurate recording — a record not of what happened in the meeting but what the parties wish had happened. This is often based on legal advice taken when draft minutes are received. The result of all this is that what is agreed and recorded as having occurred at a meeting bears little resemblance to what was actually agreed and little or no relationship to what is executed after the meeting. The Australian Institute of Company Directors has written an outstanding paper about me...
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