The Fish Rots From The Head
the crisis in our boardrooms: developing the crucial skills of the competent director
$34.67
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2011
Summary
The Fish Rots From The Head: A Boardroom Guide to Corporate Governance
Effective corporate governance is crucial. As a Chinese proverb says, ‘The fish rots from the head’ and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt’s bestselling book has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal boardroom standards that the recent credi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846683299 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846683297 |
| Author: | Bob Garratt |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 196mm x 24mm |
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”* ‘An important contribution to the corporate governance debate and clear and intelligent advice on how to improve the performance of a board’ - Tim Melville-Ross, former head of the Institute of Directors”
About The Author
Bob Garratt
Bob Garratt is a consultant and academic working on board and director evaluation and performance, organisational change, and strategic thinking. He has worked with companies of all sizes around the world, as well as public sector and not-for-profit organisations, and he holds professorial positions at business schools in London and South Africa.
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