Creating a winning business strategy can be pretty straight forward - find an unmet need in the marketplace and develop a plan to satisfy it better than every competitor. For most companies this means providing outstanding service at a competitive price relative to their nearest competitors...
read full post →“It’s a given today that good corporate governance begins with good directors. And in a previous article I talked about how the first step in making this happen is finding and recruiting directors who have the right competencies and mix of skills that will serve both the current and longer term best interests of their organization. This requires …
read full post →“With the global crisis in corporate governance still only mildly abated, there have been renewed calls for Boards to become more active participants in their corporations’ affairs and in particular the “direction setting” or “strategy” function. After all, the purpose of governance is to enhance executive decision making and thus improve organiz …
read full post →“In days of old, the Board’s responsibility for managing the talent of their organization began and ended with their top executive, the CEO. Any other responsibilities for “talent management” fell to the CEO. That’s because up until the governance implosion of 2001, it was the governance ‘party line’ that the Board had responsibility for only one…
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