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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

Boards are crucial in guiding and overseeing critical strategic decisions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and driving overall organizational performance. This involves conducting thorough research and gathering information about the organization’s industry, market, and internal dynamics.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. This language creates a shared understanding across diverse perspectives, enabling clear communication by removing ambiguity and confusion.

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Board Performance Optimization: Beyond Compliance Towards Excellence

N2Growth Blog

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. As an essential prerequisite, compliance demonstrates a commitment to adherence and propriety.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Manipulation of energy markets. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. Boards Ethics Risk management'

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, commentators have been divided about whether the raise was deserved or not, citing both economic performance (2013 was about the same as 2012) and Dimon’s handling of diverse legal and regulatory issues for support. Despite this core failing on corporate culture, he is obviously an extremely talented CEO in many other respects.