Supervising CEO

Dangerous ideas made safe

By Julie Garland McLellan on October 11, 2010

Boards need to discuss horrible ideas: the idea that your product might no longer be relevant to your target market, the idea that your staff might prefer to work elsewhere, or that your technology might leave you unable to deliver goods and services. These are not issues that management like to talk about and, indeed, […]

Control and Equity

By Julie Garland McLellan on July 15, 2010

Making the leap – from entreprenuerial to corporate

10 Practices for Successful Board/CEO “Strategic Partnership” – Part 2 of 2

By Carter McNamara on April 10, 2010

In the post, Part 1, we reviewed the first 5 practices.   This post is a continuation from that post, and reviews the remaining 5 practices. 6.  Ensure strategic plan that includes action plans The action plan part of an overall strategic plan specifies who is going to do what and by when in order to […]

10 Practices for Successful Board/CEO “Strategic Partnership” – Part 1 of 2

By Carter McNamara on April 6, 2010

This Part explains the first 5 practices.  Part 2 describes the last 5 practices. Recent and very public “white collar,” stock-fraud crimes have brought much public attention to how governance is supposed to work, but too often doesn’t.  The Sarbanes Oxley Act is one example of new regulations intended to strengthen the transparency and accountability […]

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