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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2009
A board cannot agree to disagree on material issues, but what happens when it reaches an impasse?
Domini Stuart
investigates.
The boardroom impasse
Key Points
Not all conflict is destructive
Managing conflict begins before a director’s appointment
Directors must communicate effe...
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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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2009
Rick Lee talks to
Zilla Efrat
about why he chose independent directorship as his third career and the challenges faced in the downturn.
Rick Lee’s third career
Rick Lee FAICD is busily enjoying his third career in life – being an independent director. He is chairman of Salmat and...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2009
Directors discuss the benefits of running an In-Boardroom program tailored to their organisations’ specific needs.
Building board effectiveness
Last year, after three decades of operating his own tyre retreading business, North Queenslander Col Meng MAICD changed direction, contesting and w...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2009
John M Green
argues boards should maintain a healthy scepticism when dealing with experts.
Un-expert-ease, and why you need it
When we receive expert advice many of us embrace it as the gospel it is not. Turn your mind and your depleted life savings towards the global flock of mar...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Members discuss how vital ongoing professional development is for directors.
Lifelong learning
It was a situation no director ever wants to be in. Around seven years ago, Mark Patch FAICD, chief operating officer of Gibsons JBS, was sitting on a board that in his view was “operating more like...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Do directors tread a fine line by boosting their presence in their organisations in tougher times?
Company Director
asked five directors for their views.
Meddling or mentoring?
The questions
What presence should directors have in their organisations in tough times? Should they in...
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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 Mar 2009
AICD will run its first
Company Directors Course
for Indigenous business leaders and directors in June this year.
Addressing needs of Indigenous directors
Across Australia, there are a large number of Indigenous directors of companies registered under the Corporations ...
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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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2008
Tony Featherstone
warns that small mining companies risk collisions with institutional investors over directors’ pay and governance as they grow.
Turbulence ahead for miners
The issue of director pay is getting more attention as calls grow for greater use of long-term incentives t...
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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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2008
AICD’s WA division president,
Fiona Harris
, discusses why there’s no room for diversity of values in the boardroom.
No compromise on values
When I started out on the road to being a director, I remember reading about the Old Boys Club from which most directors were dra...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
There is no disputing that women are under-represented on boards in Australia. What is more controversial, as Domini Stuart discovered, is why this is the case.
Selecting boards on merit: rhetoric and reality
Mention that Australian society represents extraordinary cultural and linguistic dive...
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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 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...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2006
Letters to the editor
Is it in the best interest of company directors to accept without qualification the claim by their auditors that they are ‘independent’? The word ‘independent’ as used by auditors does not have the meaning generally accepted in the community or in a law cou...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the last month.
Policy Update
New South Wales Occupational Health & Safety Amendment Bill 2006
WorkCover has released the New South Wales Occupational Health & Safety Amendment Bill ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
Several mid-cap companies were identified in a recent survey as having excellent corporate governance. Domini Stuart discovers what is needed for companies to achieve top marks for their corporate governance efforts.
How to hit your corporate governance targets
For the last five years, Horwath...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2006
Being a director of organisations in regional Australia requires a slightly different range of skills – but the fundamental requirements of good corporate governance remain the same. Giles Parkinson interviews Vanessa Boully.
Learning to listen
Somewhere in her busy week, Vanessa Boully – w...