Women and the New Business Leadership [Hardcover]

In The Woman's Place is in the Boardroom the authors put the business case for more women on company boards. In the next book they explained how to achieve it. Here the authors discuss the role women directors can play in the reform of corporate governance systems following recent financial, crises in leadership, governance and the economy.Introduction The New World The Implications of The New World For Leaders and Leadership Engagement of the Genders Lessons from the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme The International Perspective Nurturing Tomorrow's Leaders Quotas and Pipelines From Leaders to Leadership? References Bibliography

'Women and the New Business Leadership outlines how companies can break the cycle (of women not being appointed to boards because they have no board experience) and help women get board experience. Chief Executives of major corporates need not just to facilitate, but positively to encourage their women executives to go on to other boards. There needs to be a transition from accommodating it to encouraging it. And it's not a question of lowering the standard, but as a chairman you can't expect to have a woman with board experience. You have to take a risk. It's a voyage of discovery. You have to be ready to take the risk.' Sir David Walker, author of the Walker Review of Corporate Governance in the UK Banking Industry and Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley

'This is a very worthwhile Programme [FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme] that we at Tesco are involved in. It's a win for women in business achieving their ambitions, and a win for boards in benefiting from the female talent pool.' David Reid, Chairman, Tesco plc 'Higher standards of corporate governance are an essential part of global efforts towards future global economic sustainability. The Arab International Women's Forum (AIWF) is firmly committed to putting corporate governance squarely onto the Arab business agenda. Women and the Newlc§