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

How to make your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company’s Success. A practical handbook for directors, officers and all those who care about boards of directors. The most practical, reader friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch boards – the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for all companies, large and small, public and private. Learn how to avoid the 10 most common mistakes, The author’s guidance is backed up by massive research and hundreds of interviews, examples and anecdotes. Great boards mean great companies.

"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."