Table of Contents

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1. Boards of Directors Have Failed and We Don?t Know Why. Chapter 2. The Many Forms of the Modern Corporations. Chapter 3. Contemporary Directors: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and How Well Do They Do It? Chapter 4. Best Board Practices and Assessments: Necessary but Not Enough. Chapter 5. The Traditional Board: The Triumph of Structure. Chapter 6. The Effective Board: Function Not Form. Chapter 7. Effective Directors for Effective Boards: Putting Them Together. Chapter 8. The Director Behavioural Types. Chapter 9. A Special Type pf Director: The Chair of the Board. Chapter 10. ?C-B-S-R??How to Build a Better Board. Chapter 11. The Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance. Appendix A: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies: How Do They Differ? Appendix B: The Research Process: Getting into the Boardrooms, Obtaining the Interviews and Analyzing the Data. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

DR. RICHARD LEBLANC is an award-winning teacher and researcher, certified management consultant, professional speaker, professor, lawyer and specialist on boards of directors. He is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Governance, Law & Ethics at the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University. DR. JAMES GILLIES is Professor Emeritus of Policy and founding Dean of the Schulich School of Business at York University. Before joining York, he spent fifteen years as a member of the faculty of the School of Business at UCLA. Professor Gillies has also served as a Member of Parliament and senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister of Canada, and is a member of the Order of Canada.