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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
A look at how the customised 'In-Boardroom' program can optimise your board’s capability.
How do you create a high-performing board? How do you fast-track the effective engagement and interaction of board members? How do you build board strength and capability? A feasible solution is to p...
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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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
Unproductive board meetings waste busy directors’ and management’s time and shareholders’ money, and can lead to poor decision-making. Tony Featherstone explores how meetings can be made more effective.
What does a board meeting in your organisation cost and what is the return on that inv...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
The basic precepts of good governance are fundamental to all organisations even though most corporate governance codes focus their attention on listed companies. These include having a board charter, well defined roles and responsibilities for board members, appropriate financial knowledge, and acco...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
A productive and harmonious relationship between the board and management is critical for good governance and organisational effectiveness but can be difficult to achieve in reality. The board and management are trying to achieve the same vision and objectives so a partnership based on trust and res...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
Joining any board is an important step regardless of the type of organisation or your level of experience. Yet many directors take this step without sufficient reflection on the possible risks in terms of personal financial liability and reputational damage, and without sufficient investigation of t...
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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...
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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...