Owning Up - The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask

Informationen zum Autor Ram Charan is the go-to adviser for corporate directors and CEOs. Known for his insights and practical wisdom, Charan has counseled some of the world's most successful business leaders. He is coauthor of the bestseller Execution and author or coauthor of 14 other books including Leaders at All Levels, Boards That Deliver, and Boards at Work. He serves on three boards and was named one of Directorship's top 100 directors. He has an MBA and a doctoral degree with corporate governance as a field of study from the Harvard Business School. Klappentext The subprime mortgage crisis caught many financial service giants unaware, and reached far beyond trading desks all the way to their boardrooms. Indeed, despite their best efforts to govern properly, boards of directors throughout almost an entire industry missed a critical issue, and compounded that problem by not having robust succession planning to stem the crisis. Can boards do better? Owning Up author Ram Charan answers with an emphatic, "Yes!" Some boards are already doing all the right things. Leadership guru Charan describes the best emerging practices for boards--with real examples of how some of the best in the business solve today's thorniest boardroom problems--and helps readers determine whether their boards are owning up to governance by asking the most vital questions.Ram Charan (Dallas, TX) is coauthor (with Larry Bossidy) of 2002's runaway bestseller Execution (978-0-609-61057-2) and author of The Leadership Pipeline (978-0-7879-5172-6) and Boards That Deliver (978-0-7879-7139-7). Charan is also a highly sought-after advisor to corporations, boards, CEOs, and senior executives. Zusammenfassung Leadership guru Ram Charan describes the best emerging practices for boards of directors - with real examples of how some of the best in the business solve today's nightmarish boardroom problems. The subprime mortgage caught many financial service giants unaware, and reached far beyond trading desks all the way to their boardrooms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Jack Krol vii What Boards Need Now ix 1. Question 1. Is Our Board Composition Right for the Challenge? 1 2. Question 2. Are We Addressing the Risks That Could Send Our Company over the Cliff? 19 3. Question 3. Are We Prepared to Do Our Job Well When a Crisis Erupts? 33 4. Question 4. Are We Well Prepared to Name Our Next CEO? 41 5. Question 5. Does Our Board Really Own the Company's Strategy? 57 6. Question 6. How Can We Get the Information We Need to Govern Well? 73 7. Question 7. How Can Our Board Get CEO Compensation Right? 85 8. Question 8. Why Do We Need a Lead Director Anyway? 101 9. Question 9. Is Our Governance Committee Best of Breed? 117 10. Question 10. How Do We Get the Most Value out of Our Limited Time? 127 11. Question 11. How Can Executive Sessions Help the Board Own Up? 137 12. Question 12. How Can Our Board Self-Evaluation Improve Our Functioning and Our Output? 149 13. Question 13. How Do We Stop from Micromanaging? 163 14. Question 14. How Prepared Are We to Work with Activist Shareholders and Their Proxies? 173 About the Author 187 Acknowledgments 189 Index 191   ...

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Foreword by Jack Krol.
 
What Boards Need Now.
 
1. Question 1. Is the Composition of the Board Right for the Challenge?
 
2. Question 2. How Are We Addressing the Risks that Could Put Our Company over the Cliff?
 
3. Question 3. Are We Prepared to Do Our Job Well When a Crisis Erupts?
 
4. Question 4. Are We Well Enough Prepared to Name Our Next CEO?
 
5. Question 5. How Well Does the Board Own the Strategy?
 
6. Question 6. How Can We Get the Information We Need to Govern Well?
 
7. Question 7. How Can Our Board Get CEO Compensation Right?
 
8. Question 8. Why Do We Need a Lead Director Anyway?
 
9. Question 9. Is Our governance committee Best of Breed?
 
10. Question 10. How Do We Get the Most Value out of Our Limited Time?
 
11. Question 11. How Can Executive Sessions Improve the Ownership Function of the Board?
 
12. Question 12. How Can Our Board Self-Evaluation Improve Our Functioning and Our Output?
 
13. Question 13. How Do We Stop from Micromanaging?
 
14. Question 14. How Well Prepared Are We to Work with Activist Shareholders and Their Proxies?
 
About the Author.
 
Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: R Charan, Ram Charan, Charan Ram
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.2009
• EAN: 9780470397671
• ISBN: 978-0-470-39767-1
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management; Vorstand, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Management f. Führungskräfte, Management / Leadership