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  • Curb your short-termism

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Louise Pocock provides some tips on how a board can help management strike a balance between short-, medium- and long-term horizons. An effective board will generally adopt strategies that manage and strike a balance between short-, medium- and long-term horizons. That is, it will pay att...

  • NFP directors need to lift their fundraising game

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Not-for-profit (NFP) boards and their fundraising staff were not seeing eye to eye and needed to start communicating better with each other as funding tightened in uncertain economic times. That was the view of Andrew Thomas, Perpetual’s general manager for philanthropy, when addressing the Australi...

  • New executive pay worries

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Listed companies have jumped many hurdles to improve their executive pay practices and avoid falling foul of the "two-strikes" law. Now, as Domini Stuart reports, a new wave of pay reforms are heading their way. The second reporting season since the introduction of the "two-strikes" rule l...

  • Firing the boss

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2013

    When is it time for an underperforming CEO to go and how should the board handle the termination? Tony Featherstone investigates. Only one board job is harder than hiring the right CEO: firing your most important executive. Persevering too long with the wrong CEO inevitably sees the board...

  • Q&As on impairment

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    Hamish Blair, Simon Dalgarno and Richard Norris provide directors with a checklist of questions and answers to help them check the adequacy of their company’s impairment testing and the resulting carrying value for assets. If your CFO answers the questions below with either a "don’t know"...

  • Preparing for an IT-driven future

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    New technologies are turning old business models upside down or even killing them off entirely. Bob Hayward discusses how boards can help management to stay ahead of the technologies transforming their industries. In recent years, information technology (IT) has shifted from being an esse...

  • Bringing discipline to execution

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2013

    Your board may have devised a great strategic plan, but how can you be sure it will be executed effectively? Cyril Peupion provides some tips on how to make good execution a habit. According to recent studies, two-thirds of corporate strategy is never executed. Companies spend a lot of ti...

  • Tackling toxic bosses

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Oct 2012

    Michelle McQuaid details the cost of bad managers to organisations and what directors can do about them. As a member of several boards, I was shocked to recently learn the cost of "toxic bosses" on organisational productivity and profitability. It occurred to me that not once in all my bo...