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Nov 26th 2011 8 Questions to Align CEO and Board

The Harvard Business Review pulled together a list of questions that CEOs and boards can ask each other to try to bring their mutual goals more in line with each other.

  1. Where should we place our primary focus – shareholders, stakeholders or society at large?
  2. What is long-term shareholder value really about and how is it created?
  3. Can we influence who our shareholders are?
  4. What is our responsibility to the survival of the firm as an institution?
  5. What changes should we make in our pay practices to encourage long-term value creation?
  6. What should we be doing to build the intrinsic motivation of our people, recognizing the possibility that our pay practices might be a detriment to motivation?
  7. Do we need to rethink the role of corporate social responsibility in our firm?
  8. What should we be doing now to ensure an internal successor is ready when the CEO retires?

Source: 8 Questions to Settle the CEO vs. Board Conflict | Harvard Business Review, ChiefExecutive.net

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Apr 22nd 2007 Miscellaneous Corporate Governance Questions

  • Do the company and its leaders have a sense of higher purpose in what they do?

Source:
Making Sense of Executive Pay
by Marcia Blenko
Bain & Company, 1/1/2003

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Apr 21st 2007 Executive Compensation Diagnostic

  • Is your strategy clear?
  • Can it be translated into action?
  • Is it measurable?
  • Does it have the potential to transform your business?
  • Do you measure the true drivers of value in your business?
  • Do you link your executive compensation to what drives value – key strategic and financial measures as well as relative share price?
  • Are your executives motivated to create a dramatic upside for shareholders?
  • Is there a downside for mediocre performance?
  • Are key front-line employees focused on the same goals and motivated to deliver results?
  • Do incentives reinforce a “performance culture”?
  • Is your compensation system simple and transparent?
  • Does everyone understand how pay is linked to performance?

Source:
Making Sense of Executive Pay
by Marcia Blenko
Bain & Company, 1/1/2003

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Dec 15th 2005 10 Questions Every Board Member Should Ask

Ram Charan and Julie Schlosser recommend the best questions every board member and shareholder should ask to get to the heart of what they should know about a company. Ten disarmingly simple questions. “so simple in fact, that we often forget to — or are embarrassed to — ask them.”

  1. How does the company make money?
  2. Are our customers paying up?
  3. What could really hurt — or kill — the company in the next few years?
  4. How are we doing relative to our competitors?
  5. If the CEO were hit by a bus tomorrow, who could run this company?
  6. How are we going to grow?
  7. Are we living within our means?
  8. How much does the CEO get paid? (Maybe not in an interview!!!)
  9. How does bad news get to the top?
  10. Do I understand the answers to questions 1 through 9?

Source: Ten Questions Every Board Member Should Ask / Ram Charan and Julie Schlosser / Fortune

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