Articles from Directors & Boards (March 22, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A brief brush with Enron: I remember thinking, 'I just don't understand how this company works.'.	Baker, James A., III		1134
Book it: best bets for board reading; From a hotelier's secret to the secret of GE's success, from being rich to being an imperfect board member, leadership insights from a roundup of new books on business.		Company overview	3457
CEO pay: a new way to judge the numbers; A dive into three companies' pay and performance data provides a compelling guide for compensation committees trying to determine what level of pay is 'just right.'.	Burchman, Seymour; Canavan, Judy; Jones, Blair		2777
Company index.			240
Corporate crisis: the readiness is all; Does your board have the competencies to meet the most common dangers? A board assessment can prepare you for these potentially ruinous 'turning points.'.	Jones, Dale E.		1831
D & O insurance and indemnification: both are critical to a comprehensive director and officer liability protection program.	Weiss, Stephen J.; Knotts, Shannon A. Graving		784
Director index.			467
Director pay in emerging firms: a snapshot of board compensation appropriately tailored to the organization's stage of development, industry, and size.	Rich, Joseph R.		1570
Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.			8595
From the outside looking in: checklist-ism won't tell you what you might really need to know about a board.	Kaback, Hoffer		885
Getting it right, right from the start: many VC-backed boards experience dysfunctional behavior and often lack self-help tools to apply best practices in their governance.	Levensohn, Pascal		1006
Hit with the lucky stick.	Kristie, James		489
How an advisory board drives innovation: Procter & Gamble offers a strong example of how to create an advisory board, how to manage it successfully, and how to apply its recommendations for bottom-line results.	Stautberg, Susan; Green, Nancye		1914
Kim Clark: living a life of faith-based leadership; A visit with the then Harvard Business School dean shows a path to success not driven by money, power, prominence, or titles.	Benedict, Jeff		2806
Quality listening in the boardroom: are you guilty of tuning out or turning off someone who is speaking to you?	Martel, Myles		803
Rethinking NIFO: "noses in, fingers out" may be an indefensible standard for board behavior in the post-Enron era.	Sickles, Mark W.		736
The core function: guidance or compliance? The former is important, but the latter is crucial. Who else but the board would do it?	Raymond, Doug		752
The devaluation of the director: corporate America today is facing a revolution, the end game of which is management-by-referendum--the shifting of decision-making power away from the board to the shareholders.	Norwitz, Trevor S.		2099
The next committee in the spotlight: why the focus will be on nominating/corporate governance committees in 2007.	Koppes, Richard; Thomas, Lizanne; Zawrotny, William		1137
The right peer group for the right pay plan: guiding principles for formulating a peer set that will withstand heightened scrutiny and promote rational pay decision making.	Olsen, Scott N.; Tabaczynski, Thomas M.	Company overview	1723
The times, they are a changin'.	Rock, Robert H.		484
Two top leaders talk succession: we asked them for lessons learned and key factors in making executive transitions successful.	Cheloha, Randall S.; O'Neill, Colleen P.		1630
When the accounting goes funny: pardon the rant--but I don't like how some people are adding up the numbers.	Sutton, Gary		678
Where is HR in the boardroom? Too often MIA during board deliberation on succession and leadership development.	Howe, Michael W.		712