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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
Since the global financial crisis, there is an increased expectation that the performance of boards and individual directors will be regularly appraised. This is reflected in Principle 2.5 of the ASX CGC Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. This Q&A runs through who and what will...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
The board has the responsibility of assessing the performance of the CEO and has a vested interest in ensuring the CEO is effective. This Q&A explains the process of how to conduct an appraisal, how often they should be carried out and other considerations to take into account to ensure a good r...
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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:
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 May 2009
Charles Beelaerts
investigates how boards can get the best out of their performance reviews – and whether the financial crisis is affecting how these are done.
Measuring your board’s performance
The need to undertake board reviews is not new. In 2003, the Australian Securities Exchange s...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
18 Feb 2009
NSW Inquiry into University Governance
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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...
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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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2006
Many government enterprises are now operating in competitive business environments. As Kevin Forde discovered, in order to survive they have had to change their public service mentality, retrain their staff, and get closer to their customers.
Breaking down bureaucracy
If you read the annual re...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
Directors need to ensure that money spent on marketing is a research-based investment giving high returns – not a money-losing exercise in creative wishful thinking. Kevin Forde gives some suggestions on how to improve your marketing outcomes.
Magic and metrics
Marke...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2006
St James Ethics Centre is currently undertaking a review of the performance of its board. One of the aims is to get an outsider’s opinion on both past board performance and the risks facing the organisation in the future. Kevin Forde outlines how this will happen.
Evaluating a not-for-profi...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2006
Mark Jones and Richard Leblanc believe that with Australian companies shifting corporate governance focus from conformance to performance, human chemistry is a key driver influencing the effectiveness of boards.
Human chemistry and independent assessment drive board performance
Boards need hig...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jan 2006
A fraction too much friction
A lot can be said for the productivity and results generated by healthy board bonding. So how do you create an environment of unity around the table – without eroding the independent views of directors? Helen McCombie writes.
There can be no greater example of boa...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2005
The Wisdom of a Winner
Lynette Glendinning’s passion for working with boards and directors on complex and diverse issues and developing successful outcomes has turned into a very successful business as Derek Parker reports
‘Working with people and getting people to work together to sha...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2005
The members’ voice
An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follows:
Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe AICD’s submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services endorsed th...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2004
It has become a habit of late to proclaim new rules of corporate governance rather in the manner of Moses and the Ten Commandments – without analysis to show how the prescriptions will solve the problems that led to calls for something to be done. CEO Report
Boards that work
It has become a hab...
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Content Type:
General
For chairman across Australia:
“ In recognition that chairmanship is now such a vital role – not only to each entity with a board but to Australia’s economy – the chairman’s position description now reads like a rather demanding full-time role.” David Crawford AO FAICD
The role...
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Content Type:
General
Like any endeavour, there are a raft of terms that relate to directorship and governance.
The Language of Directorship - a 55 page glossary - covers hundreds of terms from A-Z that you may find helpful in your day-to-day work as a director.
This publication is a companion to the Comp...
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Content Type:
Book
The second edition of Julie Garland McLellan's public sector board handbook, All Above Board: Great governance for the government sector, is now available.
With a new foreword by the Hon Nick Greiner AC FAICD (Life), eight chapters and 46 case studies, All Above Board 2nd Edition is a must-have...
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Content Type:
General
Strictly (Mining) Boardroom is a mix of boardroom practice, resource sector management and investment observations and discussion, written in Allan Trench's trademark dry, humorous style.
Many of the subject themes covered in this book end in a series of questions for readers to think about, to ...