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Board Members Should Speak Up!
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Bankers Digest Feature - Board of Directors Should Speak Up
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Bankers Digest Featured Articles: October 17, 2011 Issue
Board Members Should Speak Up!
By: Kevin J. Funnell, Bieging Shapiro & Barber, L.L.P.
You, Fat Man: Speak Up! At the end of the Oscarwinning film Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood’s character, William Munny, walks into a house of ill repute that is loaded with men organizing a posse to hunt him down and kill him, and, pointing a double-barrelled shotgun at the assembly, asks a simple question. When he receives no immediate answer, he turns to a deputy sheriff the size of the average NFL offensive lineman and suggests “You, fat man: speak up.” The fat man doesn’t speak up, a gun fight ensues, and it ends badly for many of the spectators, including the fat man. It’s unlikely that it would have ended substantially differently even if the fat man had spoken up, but you just never know... read more.