Contents -- 1. Assessing the Discomfort -- The Transitions -- The Paradoxes -- Comparing Boards -- The "Sources": Participating Board Members -- The Structure of the Book -- 2. Corporate Governance: Lifespace and Accountability -- How Do Societies Enforce Corporate Accountability? -- Composite Lifespace -- Boards in Perspective -- 3. The "Job" of the Board: Defining the Portfolio -- Practitioner Opinions on the Content of Their Job -- Creating a Board Portfolio: A Conceptual Approach -- How Does the Board Do Its Job? -- Restating the Governance Portfolio -- Summary -- 4. Whose Responsibility: The Board or Management? -- Who Should Wear the Crown? -- Elements of Power: Personal Influence -- Elements of Power: Shaping Strategy -- Elements of Power: Appointing the CEO and Top Management -- Elements of Power: Monitoring and Controlling Performance -- Achieving a Balance -- 5. Commitment and Depth Versus Detachment and Breadth -- Different Types of Executive Directors -- Outside, Nonexecutive Directors -- Imbalances in Common Board Structures -- The Most Serious Risk: The Runaway Train -- Overcoming Executive Director Schizophrenia -- Informing the Outside Directors -- The Culture, the Climate, and the Habit -- Summary -- 6. "Cozy Club" Versus Independent "Personalities" -- Factors that Build Collective Strength -- The Chairman or Chairman/CEO -- Culture and Climate -- Board Members: Who Is on the Board? -- A Shared Purpose -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- 7. Dealing with Board Performance -- Do Boards Do It? -- Experience with Evaluations and Results -- The Elements of Performance -- Criteria for Assessing Board Performance -- Conducting a Board Performance Evaluation -- Implementing Changes -- Why Deal with Performance, It's so Complicated -- Appendix -- 8. Imperatives for the Twenty-first Century -- A Shift in the Portfolio: What Is in the Wagon?.

A Larger Portfolio: Economic Performance -- Caring for the Roadbed: Don't Diminish the World -- Board Roles: Growing Intensity and a Need for Vision -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.