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What a board actually needs on one page
August 2026 · 4 min
One question, three options, one recommendation, and the reason it beats the other two.
A board does not need forty slides. It needs one question, the three options that were seriously considered, the one being recommended, and the reason it beats the other two. Everything else is an appendix. We write that page first and the analysis second. If the page cannot be written, the work is not finished.