Board Chair Succession: Choosy Boads Select Better Chairs Continue reading →

First Among Equals: The Under-appreciated Significance of The Board Chair Continue reading →

Do You Know Your Next CEO? What Directors Can Do to Succeed at Succession
Do you know who your next CEO will be? Are you engaged in a disciplined approach to finding out? Many directors would be uneasy answering these questions. But one should not take solace from such company – rather, directors should take the opportunity to differentiate their boards in a critical area of board leadership. Continue reading →

How Well is Your Board Performing? Your Executives May Have Some (Surprising) Answers
Executives represent a readily available yet largely untapped reservoir of observation and insight about board and CEO effectiveness. But when it comes to board and CEO performance, executives know but are seldom asked. Why is that? As an independent governance advisor, I am often asked to evaluate boards and their CEOs. Continue reading →

Directors alone are powerless, strictly speaking. It is as a collective – a board of directors – that they make binding decisions, acting as a single entity. How this entity behaves thus determines the quality of governance an organization experiences. Continue reading →

Paying Executives Fairly will Pay Dividends to Directors.
Politicians in the U.S. have now joined investors in trying to fix what they believe directors have not – excessive executive compensation. As we have seen before, what directors do not solve, others will. Or at least they will try. Continue reading →

Directors have grown weary of compliance. Some would say they have grown tired of governance, as governance has become virtually synonymous with compliance – itself a catch word for every kind of mandated regulation. Continue reading →