“Due Professional Patience and Granular Representation are Important Components of Good Governance”

by Cenen Herrera
Writing from Martinez, San Francisco Bay Area

Granular representation or transparency is opening up the book of your life to others while due professional patience is maintaining your leading-edge professional composure in distressful situations. The purpose of such heroic acts is to provide readers of your life, i.e., your stakeholders, an opportunity to learn from your service experience. Service opportunities after all, are the overarching deliverables for professional auditors. One needs only to embrace the value of due professional patience and granular representation to filter out the best attributes that could make life developmentally meaningful and experience worthy.

Ms. Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Professor and HBR Editor) once said that there are four Fs that underpin effective organizational management: (i) Focus, (ii) Flexibility, (iii) Fast, and (iv) Friendly. Later on in my governance experience, I learned about the fifth F which is Future Value. To be effective, governance must have a Future value to generate the advantage, i.e., economic, social, environmental or otherwise, in order to sustain a high level of developmental living.

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 2. Shakespeare's sentiment on parenthood is applicable to due professional patience and granular representation because it is also true to say: "It is a wise person who knows his stakeholders." The relationship between business performance and good governance will always be the subject of interest for professional researchers so long as the business person believes in discipline as an overriding form of developmental living.