Thin On Top

Bob Garratt

Taking readers behind the boardroom door Thin on Top issues a wake-up call to directors and executives government regulators and lobbyists owners and investors about what it will take to break the cycle of corporate misdeeds professionalise directing reduce corruption and ensure a civil society. Garratt advocates a back-to-basics approach based on the centuries-old value of good governance - accountability honesty and transparency to owners whether public or private as he demystifies the role of the CEO debunks the three most widely-held organizational myths about the limits of openness and personal power and details a system of metrics to measure and manage a new set of competencies for the board its directors and the company as a whole. Rigorous application of these alone will prevent most of the directoral disasters we read about in our daily newspapers.>