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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 Mar 2010
Zilla Efrat
details some changes that may affect boardroom decisions on leasing.
The shifting leasing landscape
Significant accounting changes are looming that could affect companies that lease anything from offices, warehouses and machinery to motor vehicles, trucks and photocopiers.
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
Domini Stuart
discusses how the board can help a company reshape itself in good or bad times.
Redrawing the lines
In tough times, boards should:
Be proactive
Bring in advisers sooner rather than later
Talk to management regularly
Demand frequent finan...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
FAQs of the month
Question
What is good practice in regards to non-executive directors (NEDs) having separate meetings from executive directors (EDs)?
Answer
It is regarded as good practice for NEDs to have separate meetings from EDs to discuss issues candidly where the subject matter requires and i...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2007
Australian directors haven’t greeted virtual board meetings with much enthusiasm.
Domini Stuart
examines why and how uptake is set to change in the future.
Meetings in cyberspace
Travel is woven through the fabric of Australian business. We hop on intercity planes as casually...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2005
Linda Nicholls outlines a successful strategy for ensuring your board meetings are both productive and effective.
Inside an effective boardroom PDF.
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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:
General
A guide for boards of public companies
This new thought leadership paper from Louise Pocock, senior policy advisor with Company Directors, examines the vexing issue of "short-termism" and the impact it has on corporations. Pocock also offers several potential solutions for Australian boards wis...
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Content Type:
Book
Despite the many changes in governance regulation over the past decade, few boards function as a true corporate asset to the companies they oversee. In this book, Behan offers practical advice that a CEO, chairman or board member can introduce at the very next meeting.
Boardrooms are filled wi...
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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 ...
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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
This page is for purchasing the print version of Director's Signpost. To access the digital version (free for members, $45 for non-members) click here.
"Being good at whatever you did before doesn't mean you will automatically be a good director. You have to be prepared to...
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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...