Beef Up Your Board Committees
As board work becomes more intense, technical, and specialized, the burden is increasingly shifting to boards' committees. But are your committee structur... Read story
Ralph Ward
The New, Improved Nominating Committee
The corporate board's nominating committee has always been a bit of an afterthought, meeting maybe once a year to discuss whether anyone knew someone who ... Read story
A Shopping List for Building Your Board
It's an old story -- the company founder eases out of management and the board hires a savvy new CEO to lead the firm boldly into the future. Usually when... Read story
What's Fair Pay for Your CEO?
Q: "Our board's Compensation Committee is at work on the annual exercise of putting together the CEO's pay package, and as usual, I feel... Read story
Best Practices of Board Chairs
If we look at chairing the corporate board as a distinct job, what are some of the best practices that go into its job description? According to people wh... Read story
Insider Strategies on Leading a Board
Former chair of Citicorp, leader of the banking revolution that put ATMs on every street, member of many boards, and the defining business insider - that'... Read story
Coaching Tips for a Better Board
Executive coaching has become one of the hottest fields in management consulting. But at the CEO level, a coach can offer the executive some excellent tip... Read story
Four Rules of Board Politics
Ed Vick, chairman of mega ad agency Young & Rubicam, offers some firsthand advice for what makes a successful board chairman. "Being the boar... Read story
Effective Board Meetings: Four Leadership Tips
What's the most basic definition of the board chair's job? To run the board meetings. But this essential of the chair's role can bring many pitfalls for b... Read story
When You?re CEO but Not Chairman
Q: I'm a finalist for the CEO slot at a fast-growing tech company. The potential here is great, but I have one concern. The current ... Read story
Seven Ways to Avoid Merger Blunders
The pace of corporate mergers just keeps on accelerating, but often directors face a "bet the company" merger decision with too little time, facts, or adv... Read story
Shake Up an Inbred Board
Whether it's the board of a start-up, a family firm, or a closely held company, there always comes a point when you need to crack open the boardroom door ... Read story
Board Basics
Robert Lear belongs in the boardroom Hall of Fame. Recently retired from Columbia University, retired chair of Schaefer Corp., and chairman of the advisor... Read story
Creating a Buzz on Your Board of Directors
The young startup company may have a great idea, market potential, or hot technology, but that's often not enough to get it over the hump. A strong succes... Read story
The Surprising Rules of Boardroom Etiquette
The business world offers no other environment quite like the boardroom. The risks are very high, the rules are vague, and the directors often powerful, a... Read story
Five Ways to Beat Board Presentation Blues
Boardroom chemistry involves more than just the directors. If you're a nondirector member of staff making a presentation to the board, knowing your etique... Read story
Second Thoughts on a CEO?s Successor
Question: "So far, the CEO succession process at my company has gone well. The current chief executive gave our board a good plan wit... Read story
Coping with the Boardroom Talent Pinch
The search for good directors to serve on corporate boards has become tougher and tougher, a toss-up between opposing trends. The tide of mergers has free... Read story
Boardroom Q
Q: I'm an outside director of an established company with a growing governance problem. The company founder (and board chairman) is w... Read story
A Boardroom Pro's Governance Gems
William Adams, a retired chairman of Armstrong World Industries and a member of several other corporate boards, is a pro on good boardroom procedures. Rec... Read story
Boards and CEO Succession
Despite talk of "imperial CEOs," the average tenure for chief executives has steadily shrunk over the past decade. This trend, combined with the proven da... Read story
Board Pay: Five Hot Trends
Rhoda Edelman, of Pearl Meyer and Partners, a New York-based consultancy specializing in board pay, identifies five hot trends in director compensation ba... Read story
Five Tips for Putting Your Board Online
Using Communications Technology for Better Board Results June Klein, president of Technology & Marketing Ventures in New York City... Read story
Who Administers Your Board?
If a good board is important to your company, why leave its administration a part-time afterthought? More companies are aiming for boardroom excellence wi... Read story
The Start-Up Board
Randal Walti, head of Oaktree Consulting in Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., specializes in CEO coaching, but he's also been a director of more start-up compan... Read story
Let Some Outsiders Govern the Family Business
A productive, tough-minded, independent board of directors is just the ticket for many family-owned businesses -- but unfortunately few ever get one. "It'... Read story
Turn Your Directors into Floor Walkers
Directors walk the walk if they're on the board of Atlanta-based handyman giant Home Depot. The HD board sets itself a formal requirement that ea... Read story
Tips for Board Benchmarking
Benchmarking is making its way out of corporate TQM programs and into the boardroom where it can help you develop your own best practices in corporate gov... Read story
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