Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom

By John Carver, Caroline Oliver and Sir Adrian Cadbury

This book applies John Carver's highly successful Policy Governance model to corporate boards. Carver and boardroom consultant Caroline Oliver explain the world's only conceptually coherent operating system for boards. This simple yet profound system clarifies roles, empowers directors and senior management alike, and makes accountability feasible to a previously unattainable degree. The authors suggest a redefinition and elevation of the value that boards should create and show how to apply the Policy Governance design to commanding company performance. Corporate Boards That Create Value gives corporate directors and all who care about governance a powerful tool for success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Oct 10, 2002
• ISBN: 9780787964245

John Carver

The author was born in Kenya and came to England for secondary schooling moving to a Polytechnic to study engineering in 1969. In his Final Year he sustained a nervous breakdown with acute schizophrenia. He had a further 7 acute admissions but managed to keep working in-between as an engineer.

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