{"product_id":"9781788604147","title":"Board Talk","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible guide to the business of being a board director, through the lens of 18 crucial conversations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you understand what is really going on in an organisation, so you can exercise the oversight that is required from you?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you overcome the information asymmetry problem, where the executive directors know more about the operation than you do?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow will you collaborate as a board to set the right strategic direction in a context that changes constantly?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow will you see the organisation through the eyes of your advisors, your employees and your key stakeholders?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can you manage the risks you know about as well as the ones you don’t? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour best tool for all of this is conversation – about the right topics, with the right people, at the right time. This book shows you what these conversations need to cover and how to make them count. Whether you are a new director of a PLC, a long-standing Trustee of a charity, or a governor of an educational institution, this book will help you and your colleagues become the board your organisation needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Bishop and Gillian Camm each have many decades operating at board level in listed and private companies, charities, government boards, professional services firms and educational establishments. They have blended this with their experience of selecting, developing, and teaching non-executives, and underpinned it with a carefully curated selection of the most relevant and usable board research together with their own research insights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Bishop, Gillian Camm","offers":[{"title":"Practical Inspiration Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-31","offer_id":44230059688191,"sku":"9781788604147","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42018abe-0002-48b5-8924-b0ad5e3d097d.jpg?v=1695275282","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781788604147","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}