Boards That Deliver

Finally, a book that brings the vision of truly good governancedown to earth. Ram Charan, expert in corporate governance andbest-selling author, packs this book with useful tools andtechniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level ofperformance. Charan puts his finger on a growing problem forboards: the disconnect between directors' efforts and theirresults. The added time and attention boards invest is nottranslating into better governanceâ??that is, governance thatadds value to the business. Boards That Deliver gets beyond the rhetoric of corporategovernance reform. It captures the tried-and-true practices used byhigh-performance boards. In contrast to experts who baseprescriptions on number-crunching exercises, Charan identifies thereal problems that drain directors' time and suppress their bestjudgmentsâ??and explains clearly and succinctly how boards cansolve those problems. These battle-tested solutions help boardsachieve what rules and regulations alone cannotâ??to getsuccession right, refine a winning strategy, and design a rationalCEO compensation package. Good governance requires leadership. Boards That Deliveris the no-nonsense guide for directors and CEOs who are rising tothe leadership challenge to make their boards a competitiveadvantage.... Mehr