Charan Boards That Deliver

Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7879-7904-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B US non-Franchise Leadership

Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governancedown to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance andbest-selling author, packs this book with useful tools andtechniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level ofperformance. Charan puts his finger on a growing problem forboards: the disconnect between directors' efforts and theirresults. The added time and attention boards invest is nottranslating into better governanceâ??that is, governance thatadds value to the business.
Boards That Deliver gets beyond the rhetoric of corporategovernance reform. It captures the tried-and-true practices used byhigh-performance boards. In contrast to experts who baseprescriptions on number-crunching exercises, Charan identifies thereal problems that drain directors' time and suppress their bestjudgmentsâ??and explains clearly and succinctly how boards cansolve those problems. These battle-tested solutions help boardsachieve what rules and regulations alone cannotâ??to getsuccession right, refine a winning strategy, and design a rationalCEO compensation package.
Good governance requires leadership. Boards That Deliveris the no-nonsense guide for directors and CEOs who are rising tothe leadership challenge to make their boards a competitiveadvantage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charan, Ram

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Advancing the Practice of Corporate Governance.
Part One: Boards in Transition.
1. The Three Phases of a Board's Evolution.
2. What Makes a Board Progressive.
Part Two: The Three Building Blocks of ProgressiveBoards.
3. Group Dynamics.
4. Information Architecture.
5. Focus on Substantive Issues.
Part Three: Contributions That Count.
6. The Right CEO and Succession.
7. CEO Compensation.
8. The Right Strategy.
9. The Leadership Gene Pool.
10. Monitoring Health, Performance, and Risk.
Part Four: Maintaining Momentum.
11. Board Operations.
12. Working with Investors.
Conclusion: Leveraging the Board for Competitive Advantage.
Appendix A: Sample Strategy Blueprint.
Appendix B: The Research Agenda.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ram Charan is the go-to adviser for corporate directors and CEOs. Highly sought for his unique insights and practical wisdom, Charan has counseled some of the world's most successful and prominent business leaders at companies including General Electric, DuPont, Verizon, and EMC. His expertise in corporate governance stems from first-hand experiences helping boards with strategy sessions, successions, self-evaluations, and CEO compensation. Charan is co-host of the Fortune Boardroom Forums, has served on the NACD's Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance, and is director of the Six Sigma Academy and of Austin Industries in Dallas. He is the coauthor of two best-sellers--Execution and Confronting Reality--and has been published by Fortune and Harvard Business Review. Charan is the author of the 1998 book Boards at Work. He has an MBA with high distinction and a doctoral degree with boards of directors as a field of study from the Harvard Business School.