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| Necessary - But Not Sufficient |
As if the difficulties of assessing a group are not enough there is the absence of a clear connection between that process and its results and the reasons for the continued existence of the organization behind the board. To be blunt, we need to understand a great more about the… |
Don Hathaway |
11/07/08 |
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04/14/10 |
| In God We Trust |
The message is on every US dollar and one might say, “Sure - but who else?” By the small hours of the morning on Sunday, September 28, the US Congress announced that a US$700 billion lifeboat was in the slips, ready for launching to save the economy. It sank by… |
Don Hathaway |
10/02/08 |
3 |
08/29/10 |
| Can You Skate? |
In the team sport called corporate governance every director must play well or the board will lose a lot of games, suggesting that every player brings certain essential skills to every encounter. In Canada’s national sport every player on the ice skates well, it is a prerequisite to being on… |
Don Hathaway |
09/23/08 |
2 |
08/16/10 |
| Watch for the Red Lights |
In “Mischief of Many Sorts” I offered the view that rules are all very well but they follow the dictum of necessary but not sufficient. I concluded that piece on the issue of ethics and asked the question: “How should directors prepare for the sins they know will be committed?”… |
Don Hathaway |
09/08/08 |
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| Mischief of Many Sorts |
Once upon a time, in a land far away, or at least south of the 49 th parallel, the guys with the black hats grabbed the cash and rode out of town. Sheriff Paul Sarbanes and his deputy, Mike Oxley, sprang into action and, well, you know the rest. The… |
Don Hathaway |
08/04/08 |
19 |
09/04/10 |
| As the Twig is Bent |
Virgil said, “As the twig is bent so is the tree inclined”, just one of his many catchy phrases that achieved proverb status. Its essential wisdom has been the subject of everything from books to stage plays to human research, and I am borrowing it for the title of a… |
Don Hathaway |
07/23/08 |
6 |
08/29/10 |
| Governance DNA |
Writing a book is one of those wonderful events that reveal challenges in a progressive sequence, most of them totally unexpected. So it was with “Chairs and Tables: Corporate Governance for Small Business”, my most recent book, which was humbling in its revelations about what I knew, or thought that… |
Don Hathaway |
06/08/08 |
9 |
08/29/10 |