He said that all to often a governing body is "A sprawling committee and proliferating sub-committees.”
He also described good governance as being characterised by, "smaller governing bodies, where people are there because they have a skill, not because they represent some political constituency. They concentrate on essentials such as leadership, standards, teaching and behaviour.”
Governors are, “Local worthies who see being a governor as a badge of status not a job of work.”
Meetings have, "Discussions that ramble on about peripheral issues, influenced by fads and anecdote, not facts and analysis.”
He thinks that there is, "A failure to be rigorous about performance. A failure to challenge heads forensically and also, when heads are doing a good job, support them authoritatively."
I will let you make your own mind up about these viewpoints.
