High Performance Boards

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This comprehensive guide offers a roadmap for transforming boards and achieving best-practice governance in any organization. Good governance is essential for organizational success, driving positive social impact and economic value creation. Executives face complexities from disruptive business models, new technologies, socio-economic changes, and shifting political landscapes. This manual provides pragmatic guidance on enhancing board quality, accountability, and performance. It identifies four crucial pillars for establishing effective boards: the people involved, information architecture, structures and processes, and group dynamics and culture of governance. Applicable to any corporate or non-profit board, regardless of size or sector, the book introduces a fictitious senior board member who navigates real-life challenges with effective governance strategies. Drawing on the author's 20 years of experience with boards globally, it showcases how high-performance boards innovate and refine practices, discusses failures and challenges through case studies, and presents a proven framework for best-in-class governance. Additionally, a companion website offers tools for board assessment and practice. This essential reading has inspired over 3,000 board members worldwide and is valuable for professionals, managers, investors, lawyers, and governance students.