Just as Boards that Make a Difference hit a note with the nonprofit communities boards, Boards that Add Value will do so with corporate boards. In this book, John Carver and Caroline Oliver will apply Carver?s successful Policy Governance model to the governing of for profit organizations. Most books on corporate governance focus on adding value to ?management.? Carver contends that board authority comes from one source ? shareholders ? and that all board activities should be devoted to setting policy rules that answer to shareholders wishes. Once policy rules are set under PG, it is then the CEO and management team who execute on behalf of the owners. Carver?s approach will offer directors a useful and alternative model of governance ? one whose logic is so appealing it will inspire a needed change in corporate governance ? without being confrontational or anti-CEO.
Book Details:
- Author: John Carver
- ISBN: 9780470237304
- Year Published: 2002
- Pages: 240
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
Just as Boards that Make a Difference hit a note with the nonprofit communities boards, Boards that Add Value will do so with corporate boards. In this book, John Carver and Caroline Oliver will apply Carver?s successful Policy Governance model to the governing of for profit organizations. Most books on corporate governance focus on adding value to ?management.? Carver contends that board authority comes from one source ? shareholders ? and that all board activities should be devoted to setting policy rules that answer to shareholders wishes. Once policy rules are set under PG, it is then the CEO and management team who execute on behalf of the owners. Carver?s approach will offer directors a useful and alternative model of governance ? one whose logic is so appealing it will inspire a needed change in corporate governance ? without being confrontational or anti-CEO.
Carver?s book comes at a time when corporate directors are struggling with governance issues: accountability, CEO role, CEO succession, etc. His credibility in this area is solid based on the success of his previous publications. In addition, he has secured a foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury, the publisher of the Cadbury Report in the U.K, the most widely esteemed corporate board expert in the western world. This book is a natural ? we have been waiting for Carver to write it for years !
Designed for the busy board member, the book is brief, clear, and easy to read. * Offers directors a useful and alternative model of governance without being confrontational or anti-CEO. * Foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury, one of the world’s most widely esteemed corporate board experts. * Presents a simple yet profound model that will clarify board roles issues. * A timely resource–today’s boards are willing to address this issue as they have not been in the past.
About the Author
John Carver is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model. He has worked with boards in the United States and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. Carver is the author of the books John Carver on Board Leadership (2001), Boards That Make a Difference, Second Edition (1997), and coauthor of Reinventing Your Board (1997), and A New Vision of Board Leadership (1994). He is also the author of the bimonthly newsletter workshop Board Leadership, the video John Carver on Board Governance (1993), the audiotape Empowering Boards for Leadership (1992), and coauthor of the CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance. Caroline Oliver is the general editor of The Policy Governance Fieldbook (1999) and a founder and current chair of the International Policy Governance Association. Oliver has worked with boards in the United States, Canada, and the U.K. and writes, speaks, and consults on governance across all sectors.