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The New Boardroom Leaders : How Today's Corporate Boards Are Taking Charge.
For generations, the cozy, standard model of boardroom leadership was simple: The CEO was also Chairman of the Board, and directors rubberstamped his initiatives. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act forced radical change on all U.S. public corporations: The board must now hold sessions without management, k...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara :
ABC-CLIO,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1. A Bit of History: The Board Leaders Who Didn't; 2. Courts, Regulators, and Shareholders Ask: "Who's in Charge Here?"; 3. How SOX Put the Board in Charge; 4. Demanding New Disclosures from the Board; 5. Inventing the Independent Board Leader; 6. Three Models and Three Philosophies of Leadership; 7. A Leader's Role: When Independent Directors Meet Behind Closed Doors; 8. A Leader's Role: Evaluation of the Board and Its Governance; 9. A Leader's Role: Shaping Logistics the Board Actually Needs; 10. A Leader's Role: Liaison with the Board and CEO.
- 11. A Leader's Role: Conducting Board Meetings12. A Leader's Role: Board and Director Education; 13. A Boardroom Reality Check; 14. The Independent Board Chair: In Search of Role Models; 15. The Independent Board Chair: Less Than Meets the Eye; 16. The Independent Board Chair: Taking the Lead; 17. The Combined CEO/Chairman: Coping with New Realities; 18. Lead/Presiding Directors: Giving the Board Its Own Voice; 19. Leading the Board's Committees: Where the Action Is; 20. Governance/Nominating Committees: Teaching the Board to Govern; 21. Audit Committees: Swearing by the Numbers.
- 22. Compensation Committees: Managing the CEO's Paydays23. Board Leadership Pitfalls, or How Hewlett-Packard Fixed Its Leaks; 24. Boardroom Leadership's Unanswered Questions; 25. Tomorrow's Board Leaders; Index.