The Board Game
The Board Game
Survival and success as a company board member
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Go to cartISBN: 9788130926780
Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2014
Pages: 144
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Inch
Publisher: LID Publishing
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Reviews:
What does it really take to become an effective and successful company board member?
Managing Director, New Independent Directors Ltd
"Scanlon and Schneider have performed a great service in producing this succinct yet substantial book. It is filled with good advice and sound experience. Any future board director would benefit from studying its contents carefully before signing on the dotted line. They should probably keep a copy handy after signings too."
—Stefan Stern
Director of strategy at Edelman, the PR firm, and formerly management columnist for the Financial Times
"This book, The Board Game, written by two such experienced practitioners as Stephen Schneider and Brian Scanlon, is not only timely but useful, as it was for me, in prompting conscious thought on the role and behaviour of the successful director."
—Professor Leo Murray
Retired Director, Cranfield School of Management
Description:
It is only natural that successful executives and managers will look forward to the day when they are invited to join the company board. While there are fewer more powerful signs of professional recognition, there are also fewer greater personal challenges and pitfalls than entering the boardroom.
This book, by two leading executive coaches, provides insight, advice and savviness on becoming a successful board member. Often, the very attributes that may have underpinned success as a manager can be the very traits that derail additional success in the boardroom. The book looks at the difference between being a manager and board member, the right kind of behaviour to adopt in the boardroom, managing exposure and accountability, the leadership traits required as a board member, amongst other key traits and issues essential to boardroom survival. For new board members, this book is essential reading.
CONTENTS:
The Personal Challenge • Exposure and Accountability • Transition • Life at the Top • The Art of Compromise • Why Bother • Taking up Membership • Context • Culture • Ethics • Constituencies • Roles • The Board • Compliance • Due Diligence • Key Attributes for Success • Political Power • Leadership • Professionalism • Building Relationships • Building Trust • Judgement • Adding Value • The Vehicles • The Roles • The Obligations • A Critical Perspective • The Metrics • The Kipling "If " Test • Behavioural Barriers • How the Board Works • The Rules • The Practices • Some Critical Reservations • Key Skills for Directors • Strategic Skills • Decision Making • Advocacy • Enquiry • Are You Ready? • Test yourself • The Questions • The Answers and their Scores • Interpreting the Scores ?Appendices • The Transition: A Series of Contrasts • Summary of the Reports and Acts of Parliament which have influenced Corporate Governance in the UK • The Courtroom Model of Advocacy • The Broadcasting Model of Reporting
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Brian Scanlon is Chairman of CPS Ltd and GG Management Consulting Ltd. He graduated in mathematics and physics and took a masters degree in operational research. After an early career in the steel industry, he became a director at AT Kearney Ltd in London and led a practice that addressed strategic issues. He has also held a number of executive and non-executive boardroom positions, being responsible for the creation and flotation of a number of new ventures and privatisation projects. More recently, he was a Vice President of JP Morgan Chase Bank in its Treasury Services, Division.
Stephen Schneider is Managing Director of CPS Ltd, which he founded in 1996 to support boardroom development through executive mentoring and coaching. Stephen's corporate background includes senior executive roles in the ENSERCH Corporation of Dallas and Higgs & Hill where he was a member of the PLC board. Over the past 14 years Stephen has built a reputation as a mentor and coach to boards, boardroom directors, and senior executives of some of the country's leading organisations. He regularly contributes articles and interviews on leadership and boardroom development to professional journals, the national press and radio.
