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Boards need a good dose of ..
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 10:51 AM, Thursday 17 November, 2011
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Ethical behaviour, interpretive-reflective thinking and the ability to ask searching questions is the cure some boards may need a good dose of.
Boards for SMEs – A strategic tool for growing a business
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 03:37 PM, Wednesday 17 August, 2011
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Directors of any company, large or small, have to comply with statutory requirements and have responsibilities and duties they must deliver on.
Best Practice is only a part of Governance
Over past years boards have improved their structures and processes by adopting best practice. But to become truly effective, boards must build strong boardroom dynamics and risk management capabilities.
Its time to shatter the Glass Network
There appears to be a glass network that is limiting women’s ability to get themselves in front of interviewing panels for board appointments.
It’s time for ‘Reflective’ practices in Boardrooms
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 01:56 PM, Tuesday 26 October, 2010
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At the heart of good governance is the ability of directors or trustees to critically think about and test both management assumptions and market place activity.
Hallelujah
Many shareholders of Nuplex Industries Limited and the fallen Lombard Finance and Investment Limited may have yelled ‘Hallelujah’ late last month even though their bank balances had either suffered or could suffer from the action of a few of the companies
Who will guard the guards?
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 01:19 PM, Wednesday 17 February, 2010
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Who is watching over boards as boards watch over their management? Of course in theory boards are accountable to the shareholders/stakeholders but how can these interested parties gain assurance that board members are doing a good job?
Effectiveness is not easy to achieve
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 09:05 AM, Thursday 04 February, 2010
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Boards and Trusts can quickly find themselves working to a set pattern: reviewing past minutes, considering papers put forward from management and overseeing organisational performance. Such routine performance suggests that more attention could be direct
Collective or Super Governance
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 08:06 PM, Friday 29 January, 2010
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The emergence of initiatives such as the Integrated Family Health Centre and the new Auckland Governance structure have the potential to achieve efficiencies within the organisations as well as to bring improved services to the constituents they serve. Th
Transparency – the Cinderella of governance
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 07:40 PM, Friday 29 January, 2010
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Accountability, transparency and independence are the three key cornerstones of sound governance. Acting for shareholder or owners, considering stakeholders as well as the various matters relating to financial transactions fall under the principle of acco
360 organisational vision in the Boardroom
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 09:22 AM, Monday 11 January, 2010
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The changing and more demanding role of directors or trustees requires them to be alert to 'facts' and assumptions placed before them. The skill-set of today’s director or trustee is rapidly changing. No longer can board members rely only on information
Never have so few done so much damage to so many
Author: Dr Bev Edlin
Category: Accountability
Created: 03:38 PM, Friday 08 January, 2010
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You know what it's like catching up with friends over Christmas and sharing thoughts about the world around us. Just last week as five of us enjoyed each others' company 'the plight of the shareholders' emerged yet again. Clearly the scars from this rece