Pit bulls, windbags, the deer in headlights and the pet rock. Just some of the types of dysfunctional company directors. How do you deal with them when you’re on a board? Here are some methods.
Sphere: Related ContentDirectors and institutional investors don’t agree on whether the executive pay system has produced better performance. But they do agree on one key point: it’s resulted in CEOs getting paid too much.
Sphere: Related ContentDisgraced former Hollinger chairman Conrad Black has lost his last-minute appeal appeal to stay out jail and will have to report to the slammer by Monday. Here is what he can expect in jail.
Sphere: Related ContentWe have talked heaps about bad bosses. But what about nasty employees?
Donations to charity are tax deductible. But what if they are in the form of backdated stock gifts? A new study suggests chief executives and chairmen of companies couldn’t help ripping off the system. It was just well disguised as a gift to charity.
Sphere: Related ContentWill the next recession follow a U, V or W shape? Or will it be an L-shape?
Portfolios with companies that have good corporate governance deliver 18% higher average share-price returns to investors than those without, according to a new survey .
Sphere: Related ContentHow serious are private companies about saving the planet? Not very, according to a new global survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton. There is a big gap between US companies and the rest of the world when it comes to climate change.
Sphere: Related ContentHow bad is the relationship between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? What are the tensions? Can they actually work together to protect the markets? Now we have insiders saying they hate each other.
Sphere: Related ContentHere is a list of the top 25 signs of a dysfunctional workplace. Read it and weep.
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