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5 Ways the Recession is Changing Boards of Directors
The recession is changing the relationship between CEOs and their boards of directors and here are 5 ways the status quo on issues like executive pay and succession is shifting.
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Four Board Evaluation Problems - And Solutions
Corporate boards are figuring out that regular, pointed evaluation of themselves is vital to improving the job they do. But just because your board has ma... Read more
Five Tips for First-Time Board Members
For too long, corporate directors have been supposed to know everything, so much so that they're afraid to ask when they don't know something. This is mos... Read more
Best Practices: Boardroom Orientation
Orientation is crucial to bringing new board directors up to speed quickly, and it' s useful to see what a best-practice board puts into something as basi... Read more
Attracting Top Names to Your Advisory Board
Q: Our software company is growing very fast, looking toward an IPO next year. However, our product competes with some really big, we... Read more
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 more
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 more
Finding Diverse Candidates for Your Board
Q. Our company is a major presence in our community, but we recently settled a discrimination suit that has brought local attention t... Read more
Hot Tip: Board Conflict Resolution
To paraphrase a business cliché, a board where everyone thinks alike is a board where no one is thinking. As boardroom risks have increased, so has board... Read more
A Boardroom " Bill Of Rights"
You probably hear plenty about your duties and responsibilities as a corporate director. But what about your rights as a board member? Even good governanc... Read more
Building a Great Board
A rethinking of business governance is taking place, as Tahl Raz points out in the March 2003 story, "Read more
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 more
Building a Great Board
A rethinking of business governance is taking place, as Tahl Raz points out in the March 2003 story, "Read more
Diving Into The Media
How valuable is press coverage, anyway? Plus, when investors say no. Read more
Predictions for the Future Boardroom
Corporate governance is one of the fastest-changing fields in business, stirring almost as much recent turmoil as the exploding balloon of the dotcom and ... Read more
Board Evaluation: Liability Dangers?
Having a strong evaluation process for your board is so valuable and helpful in improving board quality that I almost hesitate to mention a potential down... Read more
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 more
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 more
Reluctant Board Candidates: Friendly Persuasion
Every year, boardroom burdens increase, more board candidates find themselves "boarded up," and the average director tenure grows a bit shorter. As a resu... Read more
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 more
4 How-To Ideas For Global Directors
Though it's by no means a megatrend, the number of corporate boards adding international directors is steadily growing (even at smaller, hometown companie... Read more
A Boardroom Generation Gap
The booming digital economy of the last decade has spawned lots of twentysomething zillionaires. Though their stock options may not be as rich as they wer... Read more
Board Searches: What's Hot in 2001?
The search for boardroom talent continues, with the stakes growing ever higher as we demand more time, effort and specific skills of our directors. Every ... Read more
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 more
Four Tips for Working with Board Search Firms
As boards increasingly become less an informal network of cronies and more a hardworking corporate resource, the search for new board members becomes incr... Read more
Handy Online Audit " Financial Literacy" Test
It's coming up on a year since the SEC and major stock exchanges started cracking down on "financial literacy" requirements for U.S. board audit committee... Read more
Board Building Tips from the 2000 Inc. 500 #1 Company
The Parson Group just came in at #1 on the 2000 Inc. 500 list ( see article ), and Pa... Read more
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 more
Five Boardroom Flash Points for Young Companies
Younger companies often face some tricky issues that seem to pop up sooner or later, and a good board can be hugely helpful in dealing with them. Hal Shea... Read more
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 more
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 more
Bankruptcy and Your Board: 6 Rules to Remember
As a result of the slump that's hit tech and dotcom stocks over the past year, combined with a general economic slowdown, many companies once swimming in ... Read more
Five Tips for Savvy Board Travel Planning
First, let? s accept that corporate travel gets more and more frustrating hassle every year. Next, let? s acknowledge that arranging travel for board meet... Read more
Your Board as Matchmaker
No doubt the wisdom your directors offer inside the boardroom is invaluable, but it's the networking and contacts they can deliver from outside that reall... Read more
What If I Vote " No" ?
Q: " I' m on the board of a growing manufacturing company, and our chairman/CEO is launching a strong acquisition program. He' s worked out a deal to ... Read more
Four Ways a Board Can Help Manage a Merger
A fidgety economy is doing nothing to slow the tide of mergers and acquisitions, but it is making more and more of the last decade' s brilliant deals look... Read more
Using Technology to Better Your Board
All of the new pressures hammering corporate governance lately boil down to one simple (if brutal) operational equation -- less time, plus more oversight,... Read more
Give Your Board a Style Audit
Every corporate board develops its own unique chemistry based on such factors as membership, leadership, company history, and power blocs. But is your boa... Read more
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 more
Four Annual Meeting " Musts" For Your Board
It's annual meeting season and, once again, most companies will make poor use of their boards of directors. At a time when shareholders are feeling edgy, ... Read more
Need Boardroom Yardsticks? Here Are Five.
What are best, worst, and in-between practices in the boardroom? Here are a few answers to the question, "if you had one tool to measure the value of a bo... Read more
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