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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 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 Dec 2008
ANZ CEO
Mike Smith
discussed the challenges involved in boosting boardroom diversity at a recent AICD lunch in Sydney. Here’s an extract of what he had to say.
The diverse challenges of diversity
For those who know me, some of my observations may be characteristically ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Who’s around the table can make a difference to how a board performs, but as
Zilla Efrat
and
Anne Lampe
discover, achieving effective boardroom diversity comes with many challenges.
Mixing it up
Australian boards have been described as male, pale and (sometimes) sta...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2008
John M Green
pinpoints when new directors should feel free to say what’s worrying them, and what chairmen can do to help.
The first meeting rule
The chairman sidled up to the new director during the board’s morning break. “Tony, I see you’re asking questions at your first board meeti...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
Jane Walton
discusses the problems inherent in member-elected boards and suggests ways to reduce the risks.
When members vote
The corporate structure has served us very well. It has provided the foundations for massive investment and growth since its incept...
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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 Jun 2008
As it gets ready to celebrate its fifth anniversary, three facilitators share their experiences of the
Mastering the Boardroom
course.
A birthday review
Sarah Cornally FAICD
Mastering the Boardroom is a unique opportunity for directors to consider what they need to do to move int...
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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 2007
Roger Corbett chats to Deborah Light about what separates good boards from bad ones.
Good vs Bad in the boardroom
Roger Corbett has come to know the difference between the good boards and the not so good. He’s watched plenty of boards and reported to several. Now he sits on quite a few. Indeed...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2007
Letters to the Editor
While the article Dealing with Boardroom Bullies (Company Director, September 2007) provides some useful tips, it fails to outline one of the key strategies for preventing boardroom bullying – having a code of conduct or ethics in place.
The article rightly points to ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2007
Opportunity in another inquiry
In September 1599, 80 merchants and adventurers, some of them veterans of Drake’s voyages, met in London to organise what was to become the East India Company. They chose 15 of their number to be ‘directors’.
Ever since, when an enterprise has had more than a few shar...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2007
Whether they are dogmatic, intimidating or just lack social skills, difficult directors can hold a board back from doing its job effectively. Deborah Light provides some tips on dealing with boardroom bullies.
Dealing with boardroom bullies
If they’re rife in the schoolyard and in the workforc...
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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 May 2007
Several experienced and emerging women directors discuss their views on why women are under-represented on Australian company boards with Helen McCombie.
Women on boards: are attitudes changing?
The results of the 2006 Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) Australian Censu...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2007
It is essential that new board members make an immediate contribution to the running of a company. Charles Beelaerts looks at how some Australian companies approach the challenge of integrating new board members into their organisations.
Putting out the welcome mat
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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...