Tuân thủ, nếu bạn nghĩ về làm thế nào một thành viên hội đồng quản trị phát hiện ra không tuân thủ, bạn nhận ra rằng bạn phải dựa vào những người quan sát nó, quản lý, để cho bạn biết. Họ sẽ chỉ cho bạn biết nếu họ tin tưởng bạn. " | 50 Boards That Deliver Informal contact with leaders below the CEO gives directors the opportunity to gain many insights into the business. As Bob Weissman director at Pitney Bowes and former CEO of IMS Health Cognizant and Dun Bradstreet says When it comes to strategy this kind of contact gives me a lot more insight about what s going on in the organization in the marketplace and with competitors and customers than I would ever get by just listening to a PowerPoint presentation in a board meeting. On compliance if you think about how a board member uncovers noncompliance you realize that you have to rely on people who observe it the management to tell you. They ll only tell you if they trust you. Channel 1 Board Briefing In Progressive companies management replaces the typical thick binder of information with a package covering a range of business legal people industry and economic issues to help the board see the big picture. Anything that is material to the business should be in this board briefing. But while a board briefing includes much of the relevant financial information that directors are accustomed to receiving it also includes a few pages of management s commentary on the most relevant categories of information. As an example here is a summary of one company s board briefing. The package distributed a week before a board meeting contained information and commentary in four major categories Financial and performance information including projections for the year broken out by business unit. This took up almost twenty pages. However it was prefaced by a single introductory page that led directors to the high points. This section made it easy for directors to penetrate the data and prompted them to raise some questions about the nature of operating cash flow trends. A five-page report from the CEO and the senior vice president of human relations. The idea was to engage the board on a proposed change in organizational structure. The report was succinct and
