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  • Board of Directors

  • Responsibilities, Opportunities, and 23 Questions to Ask the CEO
  • By: Deaver Brown
  • Narrated by: Deaver Brown
  • Length: 57 mins
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Summary

What makes for a successful board of directors, and how is it accomplished? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide, who helped bring American Power Conversion public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 billion. These are the subjects covered:

  • Issues
  • Stay on Strategy or Sell the Company
  • Board Members should be Judge-like: Flexible, Open-Minded, and Not Side-Takers
  • Board Meetings: What Should Be Done
  • The Tone: Contributors and Cheerleaders; Not Auditors, By and Large
  • Imperial CEOs are Doomed with a Good Board
  • 23 Questions to Ask at Board Meetings
  • How to Get on a Board

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