Joan convened a meeting of the board to review the report and come to a decision. She explained the approach that the deal team followed, and she invited the board members to apply the same principle. “Jeff and his team have worked hard to keep the assessments independent of each other,” she said, “and our task now is to review them independently, too. This means we will consider each assessment separately, before we start discussing the final decision. We are going to treat each assessment as a distinct agenda item.”
