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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2010
There is far more to sports boards than just winning competitions.
Tony Featherstone
investigates how the better boards aim to play a better game.
The business of sport
Directors of sports boards deal with:
Intense media scrutiny
Ongo...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Former BHP Billiton chairman Don Argus AC FAICD discussed director nominations at the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors’ annual conference in Melbourne in May. Here is an edited extract of what he had to say.
On choosing directors
Ov...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2010
Phil Ruthven
uses statistics to uncover just who Australia’s best leaders have been.
Australia’s great national leaders
There is any number of lists of “greats” be they sportspeople, inventors, politicians or other cohorts. But statistics are a must if the list is to have credibility.
Austr...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2010
Is a school board right for you?
Domini Stuart
investigates the ABCs of venturing back into the school yard.
Back to school
Joining a school board
The legal duties can be the same as other boards
Running schools can be extremely complex
Financials are always very tight
Due...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2010
Boards need to target potential CEO underperformance well before bigger problems emerge.
Tony Featherstone
provides some tips on how to spot a CEO who isn’t up to scratch and what to do about it.
When the CEO isn’t up to scratch
Key points
Boar...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
Director turnover is at its lowest in several years.
Tony Featherstone
provides some reasons for this and explains why this situation will soon change.
The low down on director turnover
After such a tumultuous two years, board turnover should be rising sharply. It is not. New dir...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2009
Letters to the editor
I read Tony Featherstone’s article on ‘Unseating the founder’ (Company Director, June 2009) with great interest. As with any good article, the title was provocative and the content worthy of reflection. Here are a couple of probing questions that add to those raised in the art...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2009
Tony Featherstone
ponders what the board should do if the founder is no longer the right person to run a venture in a changing operating environment.
Unseating the founder
Directors of fast-growth small companies face a significant challenge: some must decide whether the entrepren...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2009
John M Green
discusses how boards can improve on their CEO succession plans.
Inside outside CEOs
The three non-executive directors from different boards slipped into their regular chairs at the café.
“The Arbitz* board,” notes Peter, spooning sugar into his coffee. “Their CEO’s been doin...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2008
John M Green
argues that how a company – and especially its CEO – speaks about its people after they leave is a sign of its health.
Signs of bad health
You’re shocked when your CEO tells the board a top executive has quit. But he quickly calms you down with: “Don’t worry. She’s no...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2008
Blood may be thicker than water, but when it comes to business it can dilute the bottom line.
Giles Parkinson
discusses how bringing in outsiders and professionalising a board can really pay off for family businesses.
Keeping it in the family
Last August, Jane Stott rose to make ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2008
Domini Stuart
finds that Australia’s corporate governance rules have diverged from those in the US.
Worlds apart
As recently asthe beginning of this decade, many commentators were predicting a standardised shareholder-centred Anglo-American model of corporate governance. Then ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2007
Whether buying or selling a business, doing proper due diligence can help uncover both treasure and skeletons hidden in the closet. Helen McCombie provides some tips to directors on how to get the process right.
In search of gold and skeletons
The private equity boom in Australia has well and ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2007
It is essential that new board members make an immediate contribution to the running of a company. Charles Beelaerts looks at how some Australian companies approach the challenge of integrating new board members into their organisations.
Putting out the welcome mat
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2006
There comes a time in the growth cycle of many companies when setting up a formal board of directors can have many advantages. Ann-Maree Moodie outlines how and when to do it.
When does a small company need a board?
As a company emerges from its start-up phase and grows...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2004
A board, like a house, needs solid foundations, but the evidence coming out of some of the recent boardroom problems such as the NAB suggest that some of these foundations are not well understood. Richard Leblanc* makes some suggestions on building a better board Building a better board
A board, li...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2004
Are you a company director concerned about your governance and compliance obligations, and unsure how much you have to do to fulfil them? Managing the obligations
Following the paper trail – How safe is it to rely on those management sign-offs? asks Jon Tyers*
Are you a company director co...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2004
It isn’t only large publicly listed companies such as NAB which are under the corporate governance microscope, the recent scandals at some leading not-for-profits is putting new pressures on NFP boards and directors, say Paul Jansen and Andrea Kilpatrick*
Making NFP Governan...