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BOARD BOOK

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

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 practical, reader-friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch corporate boards the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for every kind of company, public or private, large or small.

Step by step, you'll navigate through the 10 most common mistakes that companies make when staffing their boards. You'll leam about the damaging effects of filling your board with insiders, consultants, and friends • interlocking directorships • conflicts of interest • information block • complacency • board overload • groupthink, and more. And you'll not only leam to correct these mistakes, you'll also use the book's informed suggestions for avoiding them in the first place.

In fact-unlike many books on the topic- The Board Book focuses on real-life, ready-to-use information. It's packed with both compelling success stories and chilling horror stories, as well as checklists, bulleted guidelines, questions to ask yourself, and hard-hitting quotes from leaders faced with the problem of staffing their boards. The author's guidance is backed up by massive research and hundreds of interviews hard information that everyone in business can use:

Senior executives get the tools to create and sustain effective boards

Management gets a clear understanding of good corporate governance

Directors get essential information on how to optimize their roles

Employees get an accurate reading on the health of their company

Investors get a critical benchmark for evaluating a company.

Great boards mean great companies. They're a simple yet essential ingredient of success-and one often ignored by companies that use their boards as rubber stamps for top executives. The Board Book will help you dispel these outdated notions-and tap into the powerful force of a strategic board.

susan F. shuu-z is the founder of SSA Executive Search International (1982), which includes a division devoted to recruiting for and benchmarking corporate boards. Her company has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Employment Weekly, Inc., and numerous other publications. She has an international portfolio, sits on several boards of directors, and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beverly Hills Diet and The Beverly Hills Lifetime Diet Plan. She lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

320 pages

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