{"id":851944,"date":"2025-05-29T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/delivering-bad-news-to-your-board\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:11:56","slug":"delivering-bad-news-to-your-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/delivering-bad-news-to-your-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Bad News to Your Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/boards\">Boards<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The HBR Executive Playbook on when and how to share negative updates with your directors.<\/span><span> by <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=Rachel DuRose\">Rachel DuRose<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>May 28, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2025\/05\/Playbook_DeliverBadNews_Wong.gif\"  alt role=\"presentation\"><\/p>\n<p><span>Rose Wong<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<h2>Summary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/05\/delivering-bad-news-to-your-board?language=es\" data-analytics=\"lang-es\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/05\/delivering-bad-news-to-your-board?language=pt\" data-analytics=\"lang-pt\">Ler em portugu\u00eas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Post on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?&#038;original_referer=&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter&#038;tw_p=tweetbutton&#038;url=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"share-on-x\"><span>Post<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p data-first-paragraph=\"true\"><span>Whether it\u2019s a financial setback, <\/span><span>the departure <\/span>of a key leader, a cybersecurity breach or something else, mishandling the delivery of bad news can erode your board\u2019s trust in your leadership. But when navigated well, this process can strengthen the relationship and ensure that directors serve as your candid, engaged, and strategic partners.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/boards?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Boards<\/strong><\/a> or related topics <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/corporate-governance?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Corporate governance<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/leadership?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Leadership<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/management?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Management<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/management-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Management communication<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/internal-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Internal communication<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/crisis-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Crisis communication<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a aria-label=\"Post on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?&#038;original_referer=&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;related=twitterapi%2Ctwitter&#038;tw_p=tweetbutton&#038;url=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"share-on-x\"><span>Post<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/boards?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Boards<\/strong><\/a> or related topics <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/corporate-governance?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Corporate governance<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/leadership?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Leadership<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/management?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Management<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/management-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Management communication<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/internal-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Internal communication<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/topic\/subject\/crisis-communication?ab=articlepage-topic\"><strong>Crisis communication<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/05\/delivering-bad-news-to-your-board\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Rachel DuRose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boards The HBR Executive Playbook on when and how to share negative updates with your directors. by Rachel DuRose May 28, 2025 Rose Wong Summary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leer en espa\u00f1ol Ler em portugu\u00eas Post Whether it\u2019s a financial setback, the departure of a key leader, a cybersecurity breach or something else, mishandling the delivery of bad news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2207,26884],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-851944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-board","8":"category-delivering"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}