Board of Directors: Responsibilities, Opportunities, and 23 Questions to Ask the CEO

Unabridged
Author: Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA
Narrator: Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA
Genres: Business, Management & Leadership
Publisher: Simply Magazine
Date: April 2007
Length: 1 hour
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Formats:
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Overview

What makes for a successful board of directors, and how is it accomplished? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide, who helped bring American Power Conversion public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 billion. These are the subjects covered:

Issues
Stay on Strategy or Sell the Company
Board Members should be Judge-like: Flexible, Open-Minded, and Not Side-Takers
Board Meetings: What Should Be Done
The Tone: Contributors and Cheerleaders; Not Auditors, By and Large
Imperial CEOs are Doomed with a Good Board
23 Questions to Ask at Board Meetings
How to Get on a Board

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