Titlebook: Membership of the Board of Directors; The Job Top Executiv Dimitris N. Chorafas Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

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Corporate Policy: Its Strategic Role,Policy is a fundamental guide, a general statement or understanding guiding the thinking of subordinates. General statements of policy are never specific, they are based on a philosophy or belief that serves to orient the actions of the company executives. More precisely, policies

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Qualities a Good Director Needs,Background qualities are instrumental in making a valid member of the board. Courage is one of them. ‘Courage is not the only virtue,’ an ol Roman proverb says, ‘but it is the one without which all others are meaningless.’

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The Savage Competition for Strategic Products,Survival in a dynamic industry has often been linked to management guts. Though this is a necessary ingredient, it is not enough: cost-effective products with market appeal, steady innovation, significantly low-cost manufacturing, and a worldwide network able to tap the growing markets are the other four pillars of success.

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Epilogue,The underlying message of this book is to tell the reader that rather than withdrawing from board membership he should go ahead. But he should also be prepared for it. Luck, a proverb states, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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Book 1988Being a member of the Board used to be a challenging job. It still is. But the nature of the challenge, the risk, even the professional qualifications required have changed. The book says how and why.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10182-5business; merger; organization; strategic planning

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Risks, Challenges and Benefits from Board Membership,Prominent executives confide that when their current terms expire they will not stand for re-election to the boards of directors they now serve. An increasing number of cognisant and well-known executives are turning away all invitations to serve as board members. This has a heavy toll on a number o

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Imagination and Corporate Objectives,t on our society. Imagination lets us travel into the future to plan the world we are creating, to look back into the past for guidance, to ask the question ‘what happens next if we take the course we propose?’

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Making a Strategic Plan,sed theories on strategy for a long time. Von Clausewitz in 1818 described the principles of war in his book, ‘.’ and these principles still guide the teaching at military academies today. These principles are: the objective; simplicity; unity of command; the offensive; manoeuvre; mass; economy of f