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Stigter Marc |
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Boards that dare : how to future-proof today's corporate boards / / Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Business, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- 1 The case for future-proofing -- Even faster-moving but still holding on -- Daring to take a hard look -- Governance dysfunction in 'being' -- Impacts of 'overlooking' or 'encouraging' -- The rise of tax shaming -- The challenge: beyond shareholder activism -- Preparing for bigger and bolder shareholder activists -- Why an insurrection of shareholder activists? -- Preparing for bigger and bolder consumer activists -- From activism to populism -- Preparing for 'anti-corporate populism' -- The opportunity: reframing value and care -- Boards will really need to care -- Corporate Social Responsibility is dead -- Questions around Shared Value in practice -- Audacious daring or whitewashing? -- Reputations at risk -- The future-proofing opportunity -- 2 Boards that CAN -- A different road ahead -- The powerless past -- The passive present -- The unleashing future -- A new governance practice -- A deeper and broader role in strategy -- From unlocking to creating to scrutinizing -- A different composition needed -- An enhanced set of attributes -- 3 Boards that KNOW -- 'Sorry, we didn't know' -- Going back to the future -- Take control of information needs! -- Chock them full of 'facts' -- The knowledge imbalance -- Misinforming the board -- 'A bit scary going down that path' -- Are two heads better than one? -- Nice boards don't Know -- Behavioural blockages -- No time to Know -- What do boards |
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want to Know? -- 'Bring us the off-the-wall stuff' -- 'Here's the latest and greatest' -- Can boards Know? -- Getting the basics right -- Knowing as a team -- Knowing starts with Self -- Can + Know = intellectual capability -- The governance-innovation mismatch -- Directors as entrepreneurs. |
Boards emulating entrepreneurial sensing -- Not Prozac intuition -- 4 Boards that WANT -- Directors must be insane! -- Let's not rock the boat -- A dirty 'secret' -- WANTED: Boards that Want -- Directors asleep at the switch -- Insight inertia paralysing boards -- Action inertia paralysing boards -- The elephant in the boardroom -- How directors withdraw energies -- Broken promises -- I didn't sign up for this! -- Is it about money? -- Is it about time? -- Impact of Want on Can and Know -- A board with comfortable energy:a 'delusional board' -- A board with corrosive energy: a 'toxic board' -- A board trapped in resigned inertia: 'death warmed up' -- A board with productive energy: 'the size of the prize' -- Why directors should Want -- Boards that Can, Know and Want . . . is still NOT enough -- 5 Boards that ARE -- Getting away with it -- The buck must stop with the board -- Is it just the cost of doing business? -- Are boards getting away with it? -- Governance dysfunction in 'being' -- Why unethical behaviours can creepinto boards -- What derails the moral compass of boards? -- How to improve the moral compass of boards -- Boards that Are . . . act with conscience -- Boards that Are . . . encourage dumb questions -- Beyond demographic markers of diversity -- Boards that Are . . . attract and retain the best directors -- 6 Boards that DARE -- The courageous act -- In search of courage -- In search of independence -- In search of the activist board -- Cowardice in the boardroom -- The price of cowardice -- What makes a courageous director? -- Courage as a habit -- Daring to act with conscience -- It starts at the top -- 7 Reframing value and care -- The next evolutionary step for boards -- Mastering full consciousness -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX. |
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