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Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters and How to Measure and Improve Board Performance: Why Corporate Governance Matters & How to Measure and Improve Board Performance

Thin On Top: Why Corporate Governance Matters and How to Measure and Improve Board Performance: Why Corporate Governance Matters & How to Measure and Improve Board Performance

by Bob Garratt (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

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Synopsis

Taking readers behind the boardroom door, Thin on Top issues a wake-up call to directors and executives, government regulators and lobbyists, owners and investors, about what it will take to break the cycle of corporate misdeeds, professionalise directing, reduce corruption and ensure a civil society. Garratt advocates a back-to-basics approach based on the centuries-old value of good governance - accountability, honesty and transparency to owners -whether public or private - as he demystifies the role of the CEO, debunks the three most widely-held organizational myths about the limits of openness and personal power and details a system of metrics to measure and manage a new set of competencies for the board, its directors, and the company as a whole. Rigorous application of these alone will prevent most of the directoral disasters we read about in our daily newspapers.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 262
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 21 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 1857883195
ISBN 13: 9781857883190

Media Reviews
Bob Garratt is the ideal person to write about corporate governance, boards and directors and this is the right time for this book. That he has warned us of most of the problems that now appear everywhere daily is part of the appeal; the rest is that he has a gift for words and frankly fears no man in his insistence on honest analysis. We are all fortunate in the timing of this book's publication . Robert A G Monks, author of Power and Responsbility
Author Bio
Bob Garratt advises corporate leaders on director development and strategic thinking as head of his own consulting firm, Board Performance. An associate of the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge, he is also a visiting professor of the Management School at Imperial College. He is Chairman of Media Projects International in London and of Organization Development Ltd in Hong Kong. His previous books include The Learning Organization, Learning to Lead, Developing Strategic Thought and The Fish Rots from the Head.