Strategy & Execution
Board evaluation in family companies: honest reviews without family fallout
Family directors rarely give each other candid feedback. How to run an honest board evaluation in a Saudi or Gulf family company. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
- Format
- PDF · 13 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
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What's inside
- 01Family boards are the backbone of the Saudi private sector, so their quality is a national issue
- 02Regulation now expects annual assessment, with an independent view every three years
- 03Boards everywhere admit that evaluation often misses the real problems
- 04Family dynamics make internal feedback fail, and the design of the review can fix that
- 05An externally facilitated review depersonalises feedback that family directors cannot give each other