Getting the Best from Your Board: An Executive’s Guide to a Successful Partnership

For the chief executive, a successful board partnership involves working for, working with, and working the board, some times taking more of the chief executive’s time than anticipated. This guide offers practical tips and perspectives to help chief executives ignite the partnership and help board performance move from ordinary to extraordinary making the investment worth it. Highlighting the critical role of the board chair/chief executive relationship, each chapter includes two first-person essays: one from a board chair’s perspective and one from a chief executive’s. The chair’s perspectives provide the board angle regarding specific topics, so that chief executives might take away a lesson or tip for the future in understanding why the board thinks or acts in a certain way. The chief executive’s stories offer personal experiences from the field to bring the issues in each chapter to life.

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