There is a close relationship between the quality of your Board-meeting agenda and your Board meeting minutes. If one of those is done in a perfunctory or unfocused manner, so, often, is the other. Frequently the Board meeting agenda is, in fact, merely a generic meeting outline that is retained for meeting after meeting with little attention given to it from one session to the next. That being the case, the meetings themselves may become formless discussions of whatever topics come to mind, a meandering process that will sometimes be reflected in formless, meandering Board meeting minutes.