Board Meetings: Your Notetaker Is Not Welcome Here

In an era where it seems that every conversation is being recorded, there should be a sign outside every board meeting that reads: “Your notetaker is not welcome here.”By “your notetaker,” I mean any AI notetaker. A personal one that follows you from meeting to meeting – whether a meeting bot, native AI notetaker, pin, band, or pendant. The company’s official one, launched by the person hosting the meeting. Or, one operated on behalf of the corporate secretary or chairman.None of them belong in the room.There should be no transcript of a board meeting that a lawyer will one day discover – and try to use against the company – because no such transcript should ever have been created.Let’s Back Up a MinuteTo understand why, let’s first review what board meeting minutes are supposed to do.I explored this topic in depth several years ago in a Balderton post entitled The Why and How of Good Board Meeting Minutes.The purpose of board minutes is to document that the board did its job. The…