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  • Q&A with Jac Nasser

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2013

    Jac Nasser, described as a chairman of chairmen, talks to Tony Featherstone about succession planning, leadership development, board composition and other governance matters at the world’s biggest mining company. It is easy to judge boards only on big events: the CEO appointment, successi...

  • Profile Back in the scrum

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2010

    John O’Neill tells Tony Featherstone why he is once again putting everything on the line for the Australian Rugby Union. Back in the scrum After 13 years as a top sports administrator, John O’Neill FAICD is as hard as a rugby scrum. The fo...

  • Feature Too much sway

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2010

    Proxy advisers have come under attack recently, accused of being poorly resourced, not having the expertise to handle complex issues and using a tick-the-box approach. Tony Featherstone weighs into the debate and discovers there are two sides to the story. Too much sway...

  • Greens Piece Proxy by proxy

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2010

    John M Green suggests it may not be the proxy advisory firms that are the problem, but some of the institutions that hire them. Proxy by proxy During each year’s annual general meeting season, directors come out blasting at corporate governance proxy advisory firms. It’s mostly d...

  • Your Say Aug09

    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...

  • Feature Opening the family board to NEDs

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2009

    Tony Featherstone investigates why the founders of some family owned companies resist forming a board, and the benefits they may be missing out on. Opening the family board to NEDs Key points A family company board poses unique challenges Founders struggle w...

  • Featherstone Encouraging startup governance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2009

    Tony Featherstone argues that entrepreneurs need to be taught to think about boards much earlier in their venture’s development. Encouraging start-up governance I recently asked a group of entrepreneurship students about their views on boards. The response: complete silence. To be fair, ...

  • Feature Designing the annual calendar

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2009

    Zilla Efrat provides some tips on how to better plan the board’s annual calendar. Designing the annual calendar Designing the annual board calendar isn’t rocket science. But by doing a bit more than just replicating last year’s calendar, you can ensure that your board has more mea...

  • Resilience in 2009 How to thrive in a recession

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Dec 2008

    James Lau provides 10 strategies that could help your organisation thrive in a downturn. How to thrive in a recession In times of subdued demand and economic turbulence, companies can fall from the top positions in their sector. Recent examples include Lehman Brothers and Babcock ...

  • Feature Through thick or thin Sep 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Sep 2008

    Just like a marriage, the relationship between boards and CEOs can have its ups and downs. Domini Stuart provides tips on how to nurture and build this union, and on how to end it if all else fails. Through thick or thin At best, the relationship between a company’s board of dire...

  • Spoken Word Power and authority in the boardroom Aug 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2008

    Ken Moss discussed the role that power and authority play in a board’s relationship with its CEO at a recent AICD lunch in Perth. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to say. Power and authority in the boardroomMany political figures have hung onto power for perhaps too long, including the li...

  • Feature Battening down the hatches Apr 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2008

    With grey clouds rapidly gathering on the economic horizon, Domini Stuart provides some tips on how to weather the storms they carry. Battening down the hatches The heat is on. Fallout from the US subprime crisis has brought an end to an unprecedented period of prosperity and gro...

  • Earnings guidance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2008

    A seemingly insatiable hunger for corporate information may be encouraging a tendency towards short-termism. Janine Mace examines whether Australian companies are dishing up too much data to investors on their outlook. Don’t super size me The current reporting season has opened on a subdued no...

  • Public sector boards A peek at the other side Mar 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2008

    The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Domini Stuart examines the differences between sitting on private and public sector boards. A peek at the other side Until directors are replaced by robots, no two boards can possibly operate in exactly the same way. Nevertheless, there are...

  • Inside AICD International Company Directors Course Stepping over global boundaries Feb 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2008

    AICD’s International Company Directors Course helps directors and senior executives to ease over the barriers that make cross border operations difficult. Stepping over global boundaries ...

  • CEOs and Boards Discomfort zone Feb 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2008

    Richard Hewson explains how the subtleties of human comfort zones can upset the relationship between CEOs and boards. Discomfort zone Is the relationshipbetween your board and your CEO as effective as you would want? When the board and the executives of an organisation are not...

  • High Performance Boards

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Sep 2007

    Six years ago, Pasminco crashed and burned. Domini Stuart details how building a strong board helped Zinifex rise from its ashes. Rising from the ashes On 20 September, 2001, Pasminco was dismissed on ABC radio as the latest in a string of once-distinguished Australian companies either to have...

  • Secrets for Success

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2007

    What is that special mix that makes a successful company and how do directors contribute to it? Domini Stuart approaches four leading directors for clues. The X factor Success is rarely a smooth ride. Many of our leading companies have weathered storms that might have felled other organisation...

  • Profile

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2006

    John Massey is as comfortable in the nursery caring for newborn babies as he is in the boardroom building multimillion dollar enterprises – but are these worlds as different as they seem? Nichola Clark reports. The nurture of business John Massey likes to describe himself as ‘a formalised e...

  • Perspective

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Oct 2006

    Robert Elstone, Elizabeth Johnstone and Charles Macek argue that directors need to be courageous in encouraging management to adopt a long term strategic focus – and not focus entirely on short-term financial performance. Some challenges for directors in short termism In previous articles we c...