Boardroom Consultants
Our Topic series offers CEOs and Board Directors an opportunity to dialogue about important governance-related issues in a candid forum. Summaries from those discussions, as well as other articles of interest are available by contacting aspoto@boardroomconsultants.com.

TOPIC SUMMARIES

The Growing Challenge of Boards: The Evolving Model

The Evolution of the Lead Director

Troubleshooting in the Boardroom

Spinoffs: How to Build Just the Right Board

Corporate Governance: Are We Making Progress?

Corporate Cleanup: The Audit Committee's New Role

Leading Ethical Reform

Risk Management: A Board Imperative

Making a CEO Selection Stick

CEO Failure: Prevention and Intervention

Outside These Walls: The Board's Role In Breaking News

Critical Thinking: How the Board Selects Leaders

Critical Thinking: How the Board Enhances Strategy

Choosing the Next CEO: The Board's Role in Assuring Success

Corporate Boards: Does Independence Really Matter?

Early Warning Systems: Averting Trouble Before It's Too Late

Corporate Boards: New Era, New Questions

The Thorny Issue of CEO Compensation

Emergency Plan: Director As Potential CEO?

Board Enrichment: New Perspectives Bring New Challenges

Should The Former CEO Remain On The Board?

Balancing Power: Defining the Limits of The Board's Responsibility

The Board's Role in Management Succession Planning

Compensation Decisions: Is There A Better Way?

The Board's Job: Evaluating CEO Performance

Defining the Model Board

Bank Directorships: A Sensitive Situation

Coping with Institutional Investors

Rethinking the nominating committee

Should board directors' performance be appraised?

Mistakes corporate boards are making and how they are correcting them

Is there a corporate board agenda for ethics?

What is happening to make board directors become bureaucrats?

What responsibilities and conflicts face the CEO of a takeover target?

Is there a trend toward executive employment contracts/what is the potential impact?

How does a company know if it is using strategic marketing to shift share area of growth potential for the 80's?

How does the Harvard Business School or anyone determine who will be successful general managers?

OTHER ARTICLES

The Fifth Annual Institute on Board and Committee Independence and Effectiveness: The Democratization of the Governance Function

Slayton & Boardroom Consultants Deal:
Succession Challenge for Search Firms – Search-Consult (January 2008)


The Problems with Boards
Roger Kenny talks with William J. Holstein about dysfunctional directors, the role of third parties, and what today's companies need - Business Week (December 2007)

The Institute on Board Committee Independence
A summary from our First Annual Institute on Board Committee Independence.

Board Enrichment
Six Reasons a Company Should Improve its Greatest "Hidden Asset" Director's Monthly (May 2000)

Rediscovering Advisory Boards - Directors & Boards (Fall 1999)

Leveraging Your Board To Gain an Edge - Directors & Boards (Winter 1999)

The Board's View of the CFO - Director's Monthly (February 1998)

The CFO and the Board: A Survey Over Three Years - Hospitality Business Review (Winter 1998)

Succession: The Board and theCEO's Conundrum - Executive Search Review (Oct/Nov 1998)

The Ideal CFO - "Out In Front" - Corporate Finance Review (1996)

The Changing Culture of Boards - Directors & Boards (Fall 1995)