The Director's Manual

Index

A

• Abilene Paradox
• Academic type, of disruptive directors
• Achiever style, of lead directors
• Actualized style, of lead directors
• Affirmer style, of lead directors
• age, of board members
• Agreeableness trait, of board members
• AIG
• Apotheker, Leo
• Apple
• Arthur Andersen
• Asch, Solomon
• Asserter style, of lead directors
• assessment
  • Audit Committee Assessment (form)
  • best practices
  • Board of Directors Self-Assessment (form)
  • CEO Assessment (form)
  • Compensation Committee Assessment (form)
  • customizing assessment process
  • disruptive directors and
  • evolution of board assessments
  • examples of board assessments
  • Governance/Nominating Committee Assessment (form)
  • Lead Director Assessment (form)
  • Nonexecutive Chairman Assessment (form)
  • overview
  • Peer Assessment (form)
• Audit Committee Assessment (form)
• auditing
  • board succession plans and
  • committee structure
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act and
• autocratic leadership style

B

• Batchelder, David
• best practices, for assessment
• Big 5 personality model
• BlackRock
• Blake, Frank
• Blank, Arthur
• board culture
  • assessment and
  • “board” and “group,” defined
  • defined
  • elements of
  • leadership, culture, decision-making matrix
  • overview
  • performance cycle of leadership and boards
  • research of
  • Schein's model of culture and board dynamics
  • transforming
  • See also decision making
• Board Culture Profile
• board governance change
  • CEO compensation,
  • Dodd-Frank Act and
  • impact of
  • overview
  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act and
  • SEC rule 30b1-4 (proxy voting policies and voting records)
  • 2008 financial meltdown ...