The Directors Toolkit

1 November 2008
by The Recruiter

The Recruiter announces Odgers Berndtson’s launch of the Directors Toolkit, a practical handbook for chairmen and non-executive directors, five years on from the publication of the revised Combined Code on Corporate Governance. The Directors Toolkit explains the roles of chairman, chief executive and senior independent director (SID), and addresses issues such as leadership succession and wider themes such as diversity and the mix of skills on boards.

As Richard Boggis-Rolfe, Chief Executive and Chairman of Odgers Berndtson points out:

“Underlying the whole Toolkit is the assumption that for sustained corporate robustness, in good times and bad, the critical factor is quality of leadership on the board. Our essays combine the most recent thinking with years of professional insight, and direct, personal board experience.”

 

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