Just What Is the Corporate Director’s Job?: Directors’ Perspectives on the Board

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Just What Is the Corporate Director’s Job?: Directors’ Perspectives on the Board

People and Culture

Author: Conference Board Inc., New York

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In the second part of a series on the job description of a corporate director, The Conference Board Governance Center reports on a panel discussion of and two separate interviews with sitting directors who sought to define their role in today’s environment. The findings include: directors need to communicate regularly with each other and management about complex issues to be effective, and CEO succession planning is one of the corporate board’s most important jobs.

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When describing their own jobs, directors believe CEO succession planning, interactions with management, and shareholder engagement are among the most important issues.

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