The Board Book: Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company's Success - Hardcover

Shultz, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814405495 ISBN 13: 9780814405499

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2000

Synopsis

The Board Book is the most practical, reader-friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch corporate boards - the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for every kind of company, public or private, large or small.

About this title

Book Description:

"For nepotism, lethargy, and plain old misguidance, few corporate entities can top the board of directors. And that's a shame, because engaged, knowledgeable boards can make a world of difference, setting an organization's strategic direction, infusing it with valuable expertise, and rendering the company attractive to investors.

The Board Book is the most succinct, reader-friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch corporate boards--the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for companies of every size.

Packed with both real-life success and horror stories, this fast-paced book explains the 11 guiding principles for transforming a board, exploring issues such as:

* Using insiders, consultants, and friends on a board * Interlocking directorships * Conflicts of interest * Diversity * Information flow * Complacency * Board overload * Groupthink * Turnover, and more."

About the Author:

Susan F. Shultz (Phoenix, AZ) is the founder of SSA Executive Search International, which includes a division devoted to corporate boards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0814405495
• ISBN 13: 9780814405499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336