The idea of collective competence helps us to understand the potential of the board as the only permanent member of the governing team.
Collective competence is a term used in healthcare to describe the value of developing the competence of the whole team, which has greater potential for success than the individual competence of team members.
In a TED talk on this subject, Dr. Lorelei Lingard defines and discusses the concept, and adds that “not infrequently, competent individuals come together to form an incompetent team.”