Corporate Boards That Create Value

John Carver is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model. He has worked with boards in the United States and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. Carver is the author of the books John Carver on Board Leadership (2001), Boards That Make a Difference, Second Edition (1997), and coauthor of Reinventing Your Board (1997), and A New Vision of Board Leadership (1994). He is also the author of the bimonthly newsletter workshop Board Leadership, the video John Carver on Board Governance (1993), the audiotape Empowering Boards for Leadership (1992), and coauthor of the CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance.Caroline Oliver is the general editor of The Policy Governance Fieldbook (1999) and a founder and current chair of the International Policy Governance Association. Oliver has worked with boards in the United States, Canada, and the U.K. and writes, speaks, and consults on governance across all sectors.

• Foreword (Sir Adrian Cadbury). Introduction. 1. The Value of Boards. 2. Designing the Board's Job. 3. Forging Group Leadership. 4. Connecting to Management. 5. Setting Expectations for Management Performance. 6. Reporting Board and Management Performance. 7. Maintaining the Gains. 8. Getting There from Here. Appendixes. A. Glossary. B. The Case for a CGO. C. Chair and CEO: One Person or Two? D. Inside Directors. E. Sample Board Policies Under Policy Governance. F. Sample Monitoring Report Under Policy Governance. Notes. Acknowledgments. The Authors. Index.

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