Hacking the Boardroom: Tips and Tools to Make Your Board Survivable [Hardcover]

Ralphs new book gathers the first-hand, best-practice boardroom hacks from around the world -- intelligence that boards must have now to do a better oversight job, with less time, less effort, and fewer legal dangers.?

Introduction

1 First hack & board meetings themselves

2 Unclogging your board info pipeline

3 Meeting prep: Before you walk through those doors

4 Board meeting timesavers

5 Committees: Where the real work happens

6 Hacks for new directors, new boards

7 Board presentations dont have to suck

8 Tech tools: More board savvy, smarter board use

9 Different strokes for different boards

10 Building your board career

11 Boosting board/staff chemistry

12 Better board talent: Heres how

13 Board leadership lessons

14 Keeping out of governance danger

15 Sticky situations youll face

Its scary in the boardroom. Global board members now face punishing hands-on oversight demands for risk, technology, liability, diversity, and sustainability. Yet the board of directors system, our universal governance model, was never designed for such a demanding, tactical role. Board members urgently need solid tips, tools, and advice to make this exploding governance transition survivable.

Ralph Wards new book gathers these first-hand, best-practice boardroom hacks from around the world  intelligence that boards must have now to do a better oversight job, with less time, less effort, and fewer legal dangers. These are how-to insights from front-line board members, CEOs, corporate staffers, top consultants, and legal advisors. Such intelligence is learned the hard way, through trial and error in most boardrooms. Now, readers canlâ