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"The Board Book is the most practical, reader-friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch corporate boards - the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for every kind of company, public or private, large or small.". "The author's guidance is backed up by research and hundreds of interviews - information that everyone in business can use: senior executives get the tools to create and sustain effective boards; management gets a clear understanding of good corporate governance; directors get essential information on how to optimize their roles; employees get an accurate reading on the health of their company; and investors get a critical benchmark for evaluating a company."--BOOK JACKET.