Corporate Boards That Create Value Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom

by Carver, John; Oliver, Caroline; Cadbury, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780787961145
• ISBN10: 0787961140
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-19
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This book applies John Carver's highly successful Policy Governance(r) model to corporate boards. Carver and boardroom consultant Caroline Oliver explain the world's only conceptually coherent operating system for boards. This simple yet profound system clarifies roles, empowers directors and senior management alike, and makes accountability feasible to a previously unattainable degree. The authors suggest a redefinition and elevation of the value that boards should create and show how to apply the Policy Governance design to commanding company performance. Corporate Boards That Create Value gives corporate directors and all who care about governance a powerful tool for success.

Author Biography

<B>John Carver</B> is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model. He has worked with boards in the United States and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. Carver is the author of the books <I>John Carver on Board Leadership</I> (2001),<I> Boards That Make a Difference, Second Edition </I>(1997), and coauthor of <I>Reinventing Your Board</I> (1997), and <I>A New Vision of Board Leadership</I> (1994). He is also the author of the bimonthly newsletter workshop Board Leadership, the video <I>John Carver on Board Governance </I>(1993), the audiotape <I>Empowering Boards for Leadership</I> (1992), and coauthor of the <I>CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance.</I>

Table of Contents

Foreword (Sir Adrian Cadbury).

Introduction.

1. The Value of Boards.

2. Designing the Board's Job.

3. Forging Group Leadership.

4. Connecting to Management.

5. Setting Expectations for Management Performance.

6. Reporting Board and Management Performance.

7. Maintaining the Gains.

8. Getting There from Here.

Appendixes.

A. Glossary.

B. The Case for a CGO.

C. Chair and CEO: One Person or Two?

D. Inside Directors.

E. Sample Board Policies Under Policy Governance.

F. Sample Monitoring Report Under Policy Governance.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

The Authors.

Index.