{"product_id":"the-governance-revolution-what-every-board-member-needs-to-know-now-paperback","title":"The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, Now! - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeborah Hicks Midanek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and even attack, management manipulates, and individual board members have little power, able to act only as part of the board as a whole. Governance issues are front and center, yet there is often little understanding, even among board members, of the key role that they play. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Written in an accessible and human voice, \u003cem\u003eThe Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW!\u003c\/em\u003e provides information and context essential to anyone seeking to understand how corporations and their stewards--the board of directors--can and should function in the volatile world we inhabit. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Deborah Hicks Midanek offers useful insight into what board members of corporations actually do, the current standards for board members and why they exist. She includes a timely discussion of how clarity of purpose can improve board and director effectiveness. Informed by her long experience serving public, private, and family owned corporate boards as well as those of charitable, and government organizations, she provides essential context regarding the evolution of board practice as well as candid discussion of the issues involved in the relentless effort to improve corporate governance processes. Focused mainly on the dominant public corporation, she also explores the special challenges of serving private and family owned as well as nonprofit and public agency boards. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Written by a seasoned board member, and liberally laced with stories and cases illustrating the tricky issues directors wrestle with, this book is the essential common-sense companion for anyone working with a board, serving on a board, or wanting to do so. Directors, aspiring directors, investors, and students of corporate behavior will benefit from this highly readable description of the cloistered boardroom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e For Roger Trapp's article in \u003cem\u003eForbes\u003c\/em\u003e featuring a discussion of this title click here \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e https: \/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rogertrapp\/2018\/10\/22\/independent-directors-nehttps: \/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rogertrapp\/2018\/10\/22\/independent-directors-need-to-stand-up-to-activists\/#7060008826b0ed-to-stand-up-to-activists\/#7060008826b0 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e For a Roundtable discussion in \u003cem\u003eFinancier Worldwide Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e featuring Deborah Hicks Midanek please click here \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e https: \/\/www.financierworldwide.com\/roundtable-risks-facing-directors-officers-aug18#.W1BqQdVKiUk \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Click here for a review in \u003cem\u003eFinancial Analysts Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e https: \/\/www.cfapubs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.2469\/br.v13.n1.10 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Click here for an excerpt on Corporate Board Member: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e https: \/\/boardmember.com\/what-is-the-governance-revolution\/ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Hicks Midanek\u003c\/strong\u003e, Principal, Prevail Investments, LLC; Vice Chairman \u0026amp; Independent Director, Innovate MS., USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52480039518515,"sku":"9781547416448","price":67.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/knpZwPGxTC9781547416448.webp?v=1759708619","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-governance-revolution-what-every-board-member-needs-to-know-now-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}