>> Stats show that if 100 people join year zero, only 15 renew by year 4.

Not even remotely surprising. I got my current member number in the early '80s (103210). If someone joined today, what would their number be? The difference is the number of people who've been through the revolving door.

My "try not to get sucked in" motivation generally keeps me from delving into stuff like board minutes but I did get a kick out of this:

>> BoD in general would like to see more turnover in the advisory boards, but with structured succession.

They certainly got that this past year or so, huh? The first part, anyway...

K