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Think about what we have been talking about here. Have I mentioned anything about specific fundraising prowess, how often your board should meet, how effectively your organization measures success, or what role the audit committee should play in the development of the annual budget?

Nope. Those are skills. I wasn't talking about skills. I was talking about attributes. Because this is my pet peeve. Far too often, leaders are selected based on skills. “Well, David was the chair of the board of his alma mater — so he knows what the job is all about.” Does he? Does he have the right attributes to run a meeting and attempt to build consensus or the discipline not to roll his eyes when a fellow board member says something awfully stupid?

Attributes matter as much, if not more than skills. Attributes. Or perhaps given the roll we are on in this chapter, we should dub them superpowers.