Governing in Scary Times: The Board's Roadmap for Governing Through and Beyond an Emergency. This item is unavailable.Governing in Scary Times: The Board's Roadmap for Governing Through and Beyond an Emergency

If the global pandemic taught us anything, it's that all organizations need a strategy to manage in a crisis. In Governing in Scary Times, authors Dr. Debra L. Brown, David A.H. Brown, and Rob DeRooy offer a step-by-step plan to prepare your board to provide direction for your company and reinforce your stakeholders' confidence.

With a combined 75 years of experience governing companies and boards, the authors guide you through a process that will prepare you to answer key questions:

• Where are we headed?
• What obstacles and opportunities might we face along the way?
• Who will do what?
• What are the boundaries and guidelines?
• How will we resource our efforts?

Governing in Scary Times is your boardroom roadmap to navigating extreme challenges in your business. From developing a strategic plan to assessing risks and policies to getting and keeping the right people in place, the authors provide practical and proven advice that will equip your company to survive scary times-and come out stronger on the other side.

Another crisis is (always) coming.

Use the strategies in Governing in Scary Times, to ensure your organization is prepared.

Dr. Debra L. Brown, David A. H. Brown and Rob DeRooy together have 75 years of direct and practical experience working with boards. Comfortable and confident with both boards and executives, they possess a mix of well-researched, experiential and conceptual insights that uniquely qualify them to advise organizations on governance. All have served as CEOs, reporting to boards, and been board members of varied organizations, including as Board and Governance Committee Chairs. They can see governance issues from both sides of the boardroom table. They know what works and even more importantly, what does not!