1st Edition
Hacking the Boardroom Tips and Tools to Make Your Board Survivable
Introduction
1 First hack … board meetings themselves
2 Unclogging your board info pipeline
3 Meeting prep: Before you walk through those doors
4 Board meeting timesavers
5 Committees: Where the real work happens
6 Hacks for new directors, new boards
7 Board presentations don’t have to suck
8 Tech tools: More board savvy, smarter board use
9 Different strokes for different boards
10 Building your board career
11 Boosting board/staff chemistry
12 Better board talent: Here’s how
13 Board leadership lessons
14 Keeping out of governance danger
15 Sticky situations you’ll face
Biography
Ralph Ward is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, and advisor on the role of boards of directors, how “benchmark” boards excel, setting personal boardroom goals, and the future of governance worldwide. Ward is the publisher of the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand tips for better boards and directors (www.boardroominsider.com). He also edits The Corporate Board magazine (www.corporateboard.com), the nation’s leading corporate governance journal, with subscribers who are directors and senior officers across the United States and in 27 foreign countries. He is author of six acclaimed books on board and governance for today’s corporate boards, the challenges they face, and the answers they need to excel, these are Board Seeker Guidebook (2018), Boardroom Q&A (2011), The New Boardroom Leaders (2008), Saving the Corporate Board (2003), Improving Corporate Boards (2000), and 21st Century Corporate Board (1997).
"Hacking the Boardoom' is a must read for every board member. The advice will help take your board to new heights of performance."
- Douglas Y. Park, Legal strategist and corporate advisor, Park Legal, PC
"Boardroom Hacks is like a GPS for corporate governanceif your board has ever wandered aimlessly through meetings or drowned in data, this is your wake-up call. Ralph Ward doesn’t just hand out toolshe hands out strategy. It’s rare to find a book that respects both the intellect and the time of senior leaders. This one does both. Every hack is a performance multiplier, and every chapter makes you wish you'd read it five boards ago."- Dr. Corrie J Block, PhD, Executive Coach & Bestselling Author of Chief Executive Coach and Love@Work
"In his new book, Boardroom Hacks, Ralph Ward draws on decades of experience working with directors and boards around the world to provide terrific insights and tips to make board meetings more effective and enhance the effectiveness of directors themselves, particularly new directors and new boards, to whom an entire chapter is devoted. Ralph’s engaging, conversational style makes the book a pleasure to read. He lays out his boardroom hacks in bite-sized nuggets, ensuring that that readers can close every chapter with useful ideas they can apply at their very next board meeting. The book is an absolute “must read” for board members, board leaders and corporate executives, alike."- Beverly A. Behan, author Great Companies Deserve Great Boards
