concinnity

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In her new book “Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom,” board expert Nancy Falls outlines the most common mistakes with boards, and I believe several of these apply to startups as well as to more mature companies as follows:

From Forbes

Concinnity, kon-sin′i-ti, n. harmony: congruity: elegance.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

The tendency of his genius had never been, and at the end was less than ever, in the direction of concinnity.

From Project Gutenberg

His poems, which are marked by a concinnity of method which sometimes degenerates into monotony, are distinguished above all others by their haughty concentration of effort, by their purity of outline, and by their extreme precision in the use of definite imagery.

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There appears in it, however, perhaps too much, and certainly more than in the other orations, of what Lord Monboddo calls concinnity.

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