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Directorship Features Peter Drucker on Boardrooms
WRITINGS OF LATE GREAT MANAGEMENT GURU REVEAL NEW INSIGHT INTO BOARDS
BOSTON (October 8, 2007) – If Peter Drucker were alive today, what advice would he have for boards of directors? Newly compiled writings by the late great management guru show refreshing insights into the boardroom and how directors can be more effective. Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, his frequent collaborator before his death in 2005, writes in the October/ November 2007 issue of Directorship that he constantly reminded boards their vital role was to be a constructive “adversary of top management.” Through personal anecdotes and letters written to the heads of America’s most distinguished companies—Procter and Gamble, General Motors, and Digital Equipment Corp. —Edersheim synthesizes his timeless, practical advice into a must read for those guiding today’s businesses.
The October/November issue of Directorship also features:
• A Special Report on the history of the shareholder movement with a detailed timeline of events that shaped the current board landscape, plus a Q&A with “the architect of governance,” Ira Millstein.
• How changing demographics and the impact of immigration should be on every boardroom agenda.
• How CEO counselors such as Michael Sirkin and Joseph Bachelder have become to CEOs what sports agents Drew Rosenhaus and Scott Boras are to athletes.
• Q&As with the peripatetic Kenneth Starr, who questions the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and M&A banker Peter Solomon, who blames the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for a demise in board involvement.
• A list of recommended reading for a Bill Gates-inspired “think week.”
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Directorship is a bimonthly magazine, daily web site (www.directorship.com) and events producer for corporate board members and C-level executives. Directorship is owned by NewsMarkets LLC, a privately held media company in Boston whose mission is to produce the highest quality content, events, and certification programs that support the needs of senior executives, boards of directors, and global leaders. Content contributors are the business elite and global thought leaders in the areas of management, governance, and strategy.
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