Mensa International News Team Goal

Since November 2022, I've been the Chair of the Mensa International News Team. It's been a great experience and very different from volunteering in American Mensa. This month, I'm putting the final touches on a PowerPoint presentation I'll be making at the IBD meeting in Dallas in mid October. As part of that, I had to really ponder and distill the ultimate goal of what we're trying to do.

Reducing the Size of the AMC

I read RVC 4's October 2023 column with interest, since governance is a passion of mine. I have thoughts.

If the point of a Board of Directors is to guide and make decisions for the organization, then it follows that more wise voices participating in the process leads to better decisions. There is (always) talk of reducing the number on the AMC in order to streamline this or that. My question is: If you’re already having difficulty getting all 18 AMC members to actively engage in discussions, how would reducing that number lead to more wise input?

Imagine if the AMC comprised only the current ExComm. Yes, that would save money on meeting-travel. Now picture two or three of that five-person ExComm being utter outsiders with little or no Mensa leadership experience (it’s happened before and will happen again).

I don’t think I need to say more :-)