The "Effective Director" is a best practice guide for improving your personal effectiveness and that of the board on which you serve - whether it's for a FTSE company, a small business, a public sector body or a board of trustees. Using case studies and research from the institute of directors, it provides you with useful insights into the workings of an effective board and the real importance and benefits of good governance. Dealing with core issues such as the role of the board and the duties of directors, the book moves onto more practical topics such as building effectiveness, leadership and using existing talent to deliver extra competitive value. With special reference to small businesses, the not-for-profit sector and ethics and values, the "Effective Director" will help you to review and improve your own performance, and respond to the governance challenges in your organization.
"An organisation is ultimately only as good as those who lead it. This book shows how directors - or those in equivalent roles - can add real value to their organisations and, in the process, gaina strong sense of satisfaction from their roles."
Miles Templeman, Director General, Institute of Directors
"Neville Bain has drawn on his wide experience of board membership and leadership to offer sound practical advice to directors on how to make the best of their boards - and to boards on how to make the best of their directors."
Sir Adrian Cadbury
"This book would be valuable for all directors - whether of public or private companies or those filling equivalent roles in not-for-profit organisations. It should be especially helpful to all those who are seeking to improve performance or who are seeking to take on the role in new organisations. I especially applaud the emphasis on nurturing and growing talent to improve organisational and personal effectiveness."
Richard Boggis-Rolf, Chief Executive, Odgers Ray and Berndtson [International search firm and number 1 in the UK]
"I found Neville Bain's book very useful. It helped me become a more effective non-executive director of the two Indian based companies on whose boards I serve."
Prof. Catherine Rosenberg, University Research Chair, University of Waterloo, Canada
The role of the board; The company and legal duties and liabilities of directors; Governance; The role of chairman and the contribution of non-executives; Key committees of the board; Building effectiveness; Leadership and the approaches to it; The people advantage; Small and medium sized companies; Charities and not-for-profit organizations; Values and ethics; Bringing it all together.
About Neville Bain
neville bain has extensive experience at board level. he was group strategy director and later deputy group chief executive and finance director at cadbury schweppes in london. following this he became ceo of the textile, clothing and fashion business, coats viyella. recently he has been undertaking a portfolio career of non-executive roles and establishing smaller businesses, or investing and serving on medium sized companies. he has been non executive director of safeway, scottish & newcastle, royal mail group (chairman), shl (chairman), biocon, and hogg robinson group (chairman). he is also chairman of the institute of directors and the author of successful management, winning ways through corporate governance, and the people advantage.
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