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  • Feature When the CEO isnt up to scratch

    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...

  • Feature Measuring your boards performance

    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...

  • 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...

  • Your Say Mar 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2008

    Letters to the Editor I was startled to read the article No compromise on values in your February edition, which is an edited extract of a speech given by Fiona Harris. It is hard to believe that in 2008 there is advocacy anywhere for the ‘Old Boys Club’. And worse, that it is suggested such inbree...

  • Groupthink

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2008

    Groupthink can dent a board’s decision making ability. John Adams explains why one shouldn’t just follow the pack. Stepping out of line Directors have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure that their boards make the most effe...

  • 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 Dec 2006

    Don Mercer has recently completed a three year term as chairman of the AICD. As Nichola Clark reports, his love of publicly listed companies is surpassed only by his passion for opera and ballet. He also has a lot of advice on what makes an effective board. Until the fat lady sings Whether it’...

  • Inside an Effective Boardroom

    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.

  • Corporate Social Responsibility To the Editor

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2005

    The Economist Survey of Corporate Social Responsibility (reprinted in the March 2005 CDJ) provides a welcome reminder of the basic tenets of business, and a long overdue caution against some of the more excessive expectations of the CSR movement. Corporate Social Responsibility The Economist Surve...

  • Building a better board Cover Story

    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...

  • Challenging the imaginmation Cover Story

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2004

    A good conference must provide delegates with intellectual stimulation, the opportunity to network in an informal setting and the program must be varied enough to avoid that well-known hazard - conference fatigue. By John Arbouw challenging the imaginmation A good conference must provide delegates ...

  • Making NFP Governance profitable Not For Profit Governance

    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...