The serious business of corporate board governance continues to grow more complicated – and more consequential – every day.
Boards face a mounting set of challenges. These range from activist campaigns for proxy access to nominate their own preferred slate of director candidates and serious questions about the propriety of executive compensation to major challenges related to protecting corporate data from cyber attack.
Whether you’re an experienced corporate director or an accomplished executive waiting for your first call to the boardroom, the rules of the board game are changing at a dizzying pace. You need to be better prepared for board service than ever before. And you must be ready to commit more of your time to getting corporate governance right.
We wrote Board Games because it’s becoming more difficult for individual directors to remain independent and to keep their eye on the reason they were appointed in the first place – to protect shareholder interests, to provide effective oversight to ensure the company’s sustainability, and to speak up when something doesn’t add up.
Service to any board – be it that of a company, not-for-profit or other institution – is part of what keeps that organization afloat and our global economy buoyant and growing. It’s up to you to understand how today’s board dynamics are shifting and how you must adapt to thrive – and yes, to survive – in today’s boardroom. We wrote Board Games to be your guidebook for navigating the road ahead.
As former General Motors chair and CEO Ed Whitacre wrote in his back-cover endorsement of Board Games, “If you want to be a better, wiser and more independent board director, this book is your code-breaker and action plan. It’s your move.”