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  • The damage done by dysfunctional boards

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Very little can be more damaging to an organisation than a dysfunctional board. As Kylie Hammond notes, it is bad for the bottom line, can tarnish or destroy entire brands and leaves an ugly stain on the reputations of the company’s directors. Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with the line:...

  • Keeping it professional

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Fiona Baron discovers that serving on a professional services firm’s board is all about leading by consensus and influence, rather than relying on authority or positional power. Professional services firms are overwhelmingly about partnerships – partnerships of highly specialised individ...

  • Keeping it in the family in Cairns

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    Fiona Baron talks to father-and-son team and well-known directors from Cairns, George and Ken Chapman, about their views on directorships and what it takes to make a family business work. George Chapman AO FAICD is every bit the entrepreneur. Back in the 1960s, at just 23 years old, he la...

  • Becoming part of the conversation

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    Strong differences in personalities and views can lead to robust questioning and decision-making, or a dysfunctional board of limited value. Sam Walker investigates how directors can become a meaningful part of the boardroom dialogue.   Enhancing the boardroom conversation Think a...

  • Planting the roots for growth

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    Green fingers or a red light? Tony Featherstone examines what formal boards of directors can offer fast-growing entrepreneurial start-up ventures. Catcha Group co-founder Patrick Grove has one of the better email signatures around. The chairman and deputy chairman of two ASX-listed compan...

  • Life after politics

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2012

    Do ex-politicians make good directors? Tony Featherstone discovers they could have much to offer, if only they would stop being politicians. What ex-politicians can bring to the boardroom The potential to lift the organisation’s profile and attract donations An ability t...

  • When it’s no longer all in the family

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2012

    Family business directors are often involved in finding their replacements. Tony Featherstone reviews some of the issues they should consider. The late managing director of Darrell Lea Chocolates, Jason Lea, once said that when looking for his replacement he mistakenly tried to choose so...