Board Talk : 18 Crucial Conversations That Count Inside and Outside the Boardroom
Bishop, Kathryn; Camm, Gillian
Language: English
Published by Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2023
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- Title
- Board Talk : 18 Crucial Conversations That Count Inside and Outside the Boardroom
- Author
- Bishop, Kathryn; Camm, Gillian
- Publisher
- Practical Inspiration Publishing
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1788605578
- ISBN 13
- 9781788605571
**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**
An accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.
- How do you understand what is really going on in an organisation, so you can exercise the oversight that is required from you?
- How do you overcome the information asymmetry problem, where the executive directors know more about the operation than you do?
- How will you collaborate as a board to set the right strategic direction in a context that changes constantly?
- How will you see the organisation through the eyes of your advisors, your employees and your key stakeholders?
- How can you manage the risks you know about as well as the ones you don’t?
Your best tool for all of this is conversation – about the right topics, with the right people, at the right time. This book shows you what these conversations need to cover and how to make them count. Whether you are a new director of a PLC, a long-standing Trustee of a charity, or a governor of an educational institution, this book will help you and your colleagues become the board your organisation needs.
Kathryn Bishop and Gillian Camm each have many decades operating at board level in listed and private companies, charities, government boards, professional services firms and educational establishments. They have blended this with their experience of selecting, developing, and teaching non-executives, and underpinned it with a carefully curated selection of the most relevant and usable board research together with their own research insights.
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About the Author
Kathryn Bishop and Gillian Camm have each spent decades in boardrooms in private sector companies, public bodies, charities, and schools, working with boards as Chair, Senior Independent Director, non-executive, or executive member. Their focus on making boards more effective blends this real life practical experience with their research and teaching.
Kathryn is an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, where she works with boards of global organisations. She is also the first Chair of the Welsh Revenue Authority, set up to raise revenue in Wales for the first time in 800 years. She has served on boards in England and Wales in the public and charity sectors, including at the UK Intellectual Property Office, the Border Agency and Welsh Government as well as in schools and at university level. Her first book, on women’s working lives, was published in 2021 and she received a CBE in the 2021 Birthday Honours list for services to diversity and public administration. Her website sets out her other publications and videos as well as her blog. (kathryn-bishop.com
<br /><br />Gillian runs her own executive coaching and consultancy business, drawing on her extensive experience on boards in the private and public sector, including roles as the senior independent director at Wessex Water, a member the General Medical Council (GMC) and as the first lay chair of the Fitness to Practise Committee. She has also served as Chair of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and as Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of the West of England. In these roles, she has been actively involved in working with investors, regulators, and consumer groups, and in reviewing and re-developing systems of governance. For example, she led a review of governance of the GMC following the Shipman Inquiry and of university governance in Wales culminating in the publication of the Camm Review in 2019. She has also written for the Journal of General Management and The Financial Times"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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