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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 230x154x20 mm, weight: 417 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2000
  • Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0471379379
  • ISBN-13: 9780471379379
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 230x154x20 mm, weight: 417 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2000
  • Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0471379379
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Ward (publisher, Boardroom INSIDER ) offers advice on running a better board at a time of increased responsibilities and heightened accountability. He covers recruiting, pay, dealing with problem CEOs, auditing, handling surprises, retirement, and retreats. Crises like disputes, investigations, and strikes are also discussed. Specific advice is offered for women serving on boards and for board members of non-profits. The companion CD-ROM includes checklists related to the major topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Must-Have, Firsthand Guidance for the 21st Century Boardroom

From the Wall Street Journal and top cable business news programs to global politics, the topic of corporate governance is in the business media spotlight. Yet despite this surge of popular attention and the board of directors' growing power and burdens, solid advice for running a better board remains scattered and inconsistent. At a time of sharp scrutiny and far tighter board accountability, today's corporate boards and top managers need practical wisdom more than ever. In this invaluable guidebook, the founder of the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER compiles the best "first-person" advice for quality boards. Here are expert answers to the most widely asked governance questions from today's board members and top corporate management. From CEO evaluation to logistics and policymaking, bone up on:
* Effective board recruiting
* The hottest trends in board pay
* What to do when your CEO is the problem
* Running a smart audit committee
* How to manage board-meeting surprises
* Dealing with corporate counsel, boardroom battles, board investigations, and strikes
* Surviving the family boardroom
* Board retirement policies
* Career builders for women in the boardroom
* Putting your board retreat to work
* Strategies for nonprofit boards


Including dozens of helpful checklists and inside examples of the governance strategies of leading companies, Improving Corporate Boards will help all directors ask the questions that hold the key to better governance for the future.
CD-ROM Contents xxi
Foreword xxiii
Preface xxv
About the CD-ROM xxxi
Evaluating Your Board and Its Governance
1(9)
Introduction
1(1)
How the Board's ``Governance Committee'' Works at Chrysler
2(1)
A Six-Point Checklist for Governance Guidelines
3(1)
Why Intel Is Proud of Its Governance Guidelines
4(1)
Making Board Evaluation Work
5(1)
At Bank of America, Directors Act as Their Own Toughest Critics
5(2)
Five Steps Toward Board Benchmarking
7(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Board and Governance Evaluation
8(2)
CEO Evaluation
10(11)
Introduction
10(1)
Building a Job Description for Your CEO
11(1)
St. Jude Medical's Four-Step CEO Evaluation
12(1)
CEO Evaluation at Kera Vision: Lessons We've Learned
13(2)
Boardroom Reflections: How ``Chainsaw Al'' Got the Chop
15(1)
Six Ways to Screw Up Your CEO Evaluation
16(1)
Coping with ``Evaluation Shyness''
17(1)
When Your CEO Is the Problem
18(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Chief Executive Evaluation
19(2)
CEO Succession Planning
21(11)
Introduction
21(1)
Boards and CEO Succession---Mastering the Basics
22(2)
John Scully on the Active Board's CEO Search
24(2)
Four Ways Boards Fumble CEO Succession
26(1)
Succession Close-Up: Compaq
27(2)
CEO Orientation---Your Succession Wrap-up
29(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for CEO Succession Planning
30(2)
Search for Directors
32(12)
Introduction
32(1)
Three Tips for Growth Company Board Recruiting
33(1)
Board Search ``Red Flags''
34(1)
Three Fresh Talent Sources That Can Boost Your Board
35(2)
The AWOL Director
37(1)
``Help Wanted'' Ads for the Boardroom?
38(2)
What Questions Should You Ask Board Candidates?
40(1)
Inside Directors: An Endangered Species?
41(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Director Recruitment
42(2)
Smarter Audit Committees
44(11)
Introduction
44(1)
Heads Up on SEC Audit Committee Changes
45(2)
Barbara Franklin's Four Tips for Running an Audit Committee
47(1)
So What Do the Auditors Think of Your Committee?
48(1)
How Roderick Hills Shakes Things Up on Audit
48(2)
Three Free Online Audit Finds
50(1)
Five More Ways to Bring Your Audit Committee Up to Speed
50(2)
Financial Fraud Hunting: Five Clues
52(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Audit Committees
53(2)
Effective Compensation Committees
55(9)
Introduction
55(1)
Four Dirty Little Pay Secrets
56(1)
Design Your Pay Committee to Deliver Results
57(1)
How Boards Get Rolled on Setting CEO Pay
58(1)
The Hottest Comp Committee Issues in 2000
59(1)
Helping your CEO---and Your Committee---Manage the New World of Pay
60(2)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Compensation Committees
62(2)
Better Board Logistics
64(10)
Introduction
64(1)
Five Great Ideas for Better Board Logistics
65(1)
The Board Meeting Before the Board Meeting
66(1)
Or, How About a Two-Day Board Meeting?
67(1)
Those Board Meeting ``Surprises''
68(1)
Four Great Administrative Timesavers
68(2)
Setting Your Board Agenda (and Sticking to It)
70(1)
After the Annual Meeting
71(1)
Dealing with the ``Pop-Up'' Director
72(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Better Board Logistics
72(2)
Board Structure
74(7)
Introduction
74(1)
Committee Work: How to Divide and Conquer
75(1)
How One Company Makes the ``Lead Director'' Work
76(1)
Board Executive Committees: A Dinosaur?
76(1)
Let the Board Huddle by Itself
77(1)
Online Find: Write Your Own Board Manual
78(1)
Does Size Matter in the Boardroom?
78(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Structuring Your Board
79(2)
Board Tech Tips
81(8)
Introduction
81(1)
The Online Board
82(1)
Compaq's CD ``Boardroom Bundle''
83(1)
Board Pay Software for the New Century
84(1)
Great Online Sources for Global Board Info
85(1)
Venture Capital Savvy Online
86(1)
Three Software Finds for Boardroom Support
86(1)
Online Find: A ``Boardroom 101'' Briefing
87(1)
Online Confirmation for What You Always Knew About Boards
87(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Board Technology Issues
87(2)
Board Meetings and Minutes
89(9)
Introduction
89(1)
Five Boardroom Administrative Boners
90(1)
Are Time Bombs Ticking in Your Board Minutes?
91(1)
Getting a Handle on Boardroom ``Rules of Order''
92(1)
How Can You Use Parliamentary Power Tools?
93(1)
Board Info: What to Keep and What to Toss?
94(1)
Two Boardroom ``How-To'' Book Finds
95(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Board Meetings and Minutes
96(2)
Board Info Ideas
98(11)
Introduction
98(1)
Don Perkins on Board Communication
99(1)
Board Mailings: Browning-Ferris Succeeds with ``Bite-Sized'' Servings
100(1)
Strengthening the Board's Info Pipeline
101(1)
Bob Lutz's ``Frequent Flier'' Test for Board Info
102(1)
How Mallinckrodt Uses New Director ``Hazing'' ...
102(1)
... But Then Gives Them the Info Tools They Need to Excel
103(2)
Our ``Need to Know'' CEO
105(1)
Warren Batts on What Your Board Needs to Know
106(1)
The Board Meeting Info Dump
106(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Board Communications
107(2)
Board and Internal Company Resources
109(10)
Introduction
109(1)
Going Behind the CEO's Back?
110(1)
Boards and Corporate Counsel---Five Ideas
111(1)
...And Three Less Conventional Counsel Tips
112(1)
Five+ Ideas for Working with Internal Audit
113(1)
Four Ways to Keep Your Board Posted on Tech Issues
114(2)
The CFO and the Board
116(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Tapping Internal Resources
117(2)
Boards and the Corporate Secretary
119(7)
Introduction
119(1)
Raymond Troubh's Tips for Smooth Board Operation
120(1)
Dedicated Staff Support for Your Board?
121(1)
A Board ``Wrangler'': How American Express Does It
122(1)
Annual Meetings: Who Does What?...
123(1)
...And How You Can Make Your Board an AM Asset
124(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Boards and the Corporate Secretary
125(1)
Your Board as a Strategic Tool
126(10)
Introduction
126(1)
Three Ideas for Tapping Your Board's Strategic Skills
127(1)
Considering ``A Change of Venue'' for the Board
128(1)
Putting Your Board Retreat to Work
129(1)
Stock Splits? Buybacks? How Do Directors Decide?
130(2)
What Is a Strategic ``Advisory Board''?...
132(1)
...And How Do You Run One?
133(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Strategy in the Boardroom
134(2)
Behind Boardroom Doors
136(12)
Introduction
136(1)
Easing Out the ``Seat Occupier''
137(1)
When You're the Lone Voice in the Boardroom
138(1)
Batting Boardroom Factions
139(1)
Does the CEO's ``Problem'' Harm the Company?
140(1)
One-on-One Director Chats---Treasonous?
141(1)
The Boardroom Blowup
141(1)
When Is It Okay to Resign?
142(1)
Charles Elson on Tough Boardroom Calls
143(2)
Four Boardroom Communication Breakdowns---and How to Avoid Them
145(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Boardroom Battles
146(2)
Coping with Liability Dangers
148(14)
Introduction
148(1)
Your Audit Committee---A Liability Dumping Ground?
149(1)
Five Ways to Keep Your Board on Top of Compliance Monitoring
149(2)
Four Hidden Liability Pitfalls
151(2)
Your D&O Coverage: Too Little or Too Much?
153(2)
Board Investigations---Four Danger Zones
155(1)
D&O Indemnification---Watch Out for These Three Issues!
156(1)
The Board and Y2K---What You Might Have Missed
157(1)
Five Boardroom ``Duty of Loylty'' Checkpoints
158(2)
Online Find: Getting a Handle on D&O Risk
160(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Liability Issues
160(2)
The Startup Board
162(12)
Introduction
162(1)
How Idealab! ``Mass Produces'' Startup Boards
163(1)
The Silicon Valley Startup Board Model
164(1)
Name Directors Can Help---or Hurt---the Startup
165(1)
The Board Evolves Along with the Company
166(2)
Your Board Before (and After) the IPO
168(2)
How GM Shaped a ``Clean Sheet of Paper'' Board
170(1)
Planning Your New Board for Growth
171(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Startup Boards
172(2)
Family/Closely Held Businesses
174(11)
Introduction
174(1)
Easing Outside Talent Onto the Family Business Board
175(1)
Family Board Transitions: How We Did It
176(2)
Growing Your Board with the Company
178(1)
Stepping Into the Family Boardroom---Five Tips
179(1)
How Minority Shareholders Can Fight Back
180(1)
Mo Siegel on When the Founder Should Step Down
181(1)
When Divorce Hits the Boardroom
182(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Family/Closely Held Boards
183(2)
The Public Face of Your Board
185(9)
Introduction
185(1)
Your Board and the Annual Report: Three Tips
186(2)
Your Board as an Alliance Matchmaker
188(1)
Boards and Strikes: A Few Ideas
189(1)
Take a Letter to the Shareholders
189(1)
Hot Governance Topics at Your Annual Meetings
190(1)
Turn Your Directors into Floorwalkers
191(1)
Boards and IR: Motorol Shows Em Off to Analysts
192(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Showing Off Your Board
193(1)
Boosting Your Personal Board Prospects
194(10)
Introduction
194(1)
Three Hot Tickets That Make You Stand Out in the Crowd
195(1)
Your Toughest Sale Before Becoming a Board Prospect
196(1)
Visibility, Visibility, Visibility
197(1)
How to Make Yourself ``Board Ready''
197(2)
Sizing Up a Board Time Commitment
199(1)
Board Seats: How Many Are Too Many?
200(1)
How Much Board Networking Is Too Much?
201(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Boards and Your Career
202(2)
Your Board Income
204(8)
Introduction
204(1)
Board Pay---The Four Hottest Trends
205(1)
What Is Your Director ``Job Status''?
206(1)
Shaping Policies for Board Stock Trading
207(1)
Online Find: Keeping Track of Your Options
208(1)
Board Pay in Your Retirement Planning
209(1)
Board Retirement Policies: Who Does What?
210(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Managing Your Board Income
210(2)
Women in the Boardroom
212(5)
Introduction
212(1)
Here's a Boardroom Boost for Women
213(1)
Five Boardroom Career-Builders for Women
213(1)
He Said/She Said in the Boardroom
214(2)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Women and Board
216(1)
Boards and M&A
217(7)
Introduction
217(1)
Merging Two Boards: How Bell Atlantic and NYNEX Did It
218(2)
The Case of the Bulging Boardroom
220(1)
Subsidiary Board Governance Problems
221(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for M&A and Subsidiary Boards
222(2)
Nonprofit Boards
224(7)
Introduction
224(1)
Great Online Find for Nonprofit Boards
225(1)
Don't Force Your Nonprofit Board to Act Like a For-Profit
226(1)
Two More Nonprofit Finds
226(1)
The Board as a Performing Art
227(1)
Boardroom ``Bulls'' vs. ``Wallflowers''
227(1)
The Case of the Missing Nonprofit Directors
228(1)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Nonprofit Boards
229(2)
International Boardroom Trends
231(8)
Overview
231(6)
The Boardroom INSIDER Checklist for Global Board Issues
237(2)
Index 239
RALPH D. WARD, publisher of the Boardroom INSIDER newsletter and editor of the Corporate Board magazine, is a nationally recognized writer and commentator on the roles of corporate boards of directors and corporate governance.