Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom
10 Imperatives to Drive High Performing Companies
by Nancy Falls
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Pub Date Jun 09 2015 | Archive Date Jun 22 2015
Greenleaf Book Group | Greenleaf Book Group Press
Description
If the gears of governance no longer drive growth and profitability in your company, Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom will serve as the manual to get you back on track.
Today’s companies and their boards of directors are operating in increasingly complex and risky environments. As a result, the who and the what of governance work has begun to change to better enable boards to advise, support, and challenge the C-suite. While such changes are necessary and a critical step in the right direction, they are far from sufficient. The way boards and company management work together must evolve as well, not only to navigate the risks of complexity and change, but also to create and take advantage of the opportunities inherent in them.
Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom: 10 Imperatives to Drive High Performing Companies directly addresses the way to foster effective boardroom-C-suite collaboration. It provides a new framework for corporate governance that creates concinnity—an elegant and delicate integration of the perspectives, guidance, and experiences that provide a platform for the powerful progress critical to successful governance teams. True concinnity retains the honesty and raw energy that drive successful boards while eschewing the command and control model of governance that plagues too many boardrooms.
Falls’s 10 imperatives bring together the key pieces of wisdom she has gathered during her career. She shines a light on the importance of clarity around roles and responsibilities, flexibility and creative adaptation during problem solving, and harmonious interpersonal dynamics in times of both upheaval and growth. When these pieces are in place, the gears of boardroom concinnity operate so smoothly we barely notice they’re turning. But if the gears of governance no longer drive growth and profitability in your company, Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom will serve as the manual to get you back on track.
Today’s companies and their boards of directors are operating in increasingly complex and risky environments. As a result, the who and the what of governance work has begun to change to better enable boards to advise, support, and challenge the C-suite. While such changes are necessary and a critical step in the right direction, they are far from sufficient. The way boards and company management work together must evolve as well, not only to navigate the risks of complexity and change, but also to create and take advantage of the opportunities inherent in them.
Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom: 10 Imperatives to Drive High Performing Companies directly addresses the way to foster effective boardroom-C-suite collaboration. It provides a new framework for corporate governance that creates concinnity—an elegant and delicate integration of the perspectives, guidance, and experiences that provide a platform for the powerful progress critical to successful governance teams. True concinnity retains the honesty and raw energy that drive successful boards while eschewing the command and control model of governance that plagues too many boardrooms.
Falls’s 10 imperatives bring together the key pieces of wisdom she has gathered during her career. She shines a light on the importance of clarity around roles and responsibilities, flexibility and creative adaptation during problem solving, and harmonious interpersonal dynamics in times of both upheaval and growth. When these pieces are in place, the gears of boardroom concinnity operate so smoothly we barely notice they’re turning. But if the gears of governance no longer drive growth and profitability in your company, Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom will serve as the manual to get you back on track.
Advance Praise
''We need a new word in the boardroom and we have found it in 'concinnity.' Nancy Falls gives us a fresh framework for governing that will help us steward enterprises to their best performance outcomes--while maintaining that delicate balance of courage and humility required to serve well.''
--Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. and author of Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is the best book I have read about effective boards of directors. Learn best practices in selecting members, setting direction, keeping focus, and resolving conflict. If I had read this book thirty years ago I would have been more effective as chairman of my company.'' --Joe Scarlett, retired chairman, Tractor Supply Company
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom, a breakthrough governance book, creates a wonderful new framework for governing by focusing exclusively on ways to make sure that the CEO and the board are on the same page. There is expected tension between leadership and governance, but Nancy Falls has created a new framework that hits these tensions head-on, by exploring such topics as respective expectations and communication styles.'' --Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Esq., Member and Director, Epstein Becker & Green; President of Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry foundation
''Forward-thinking governance leverages relationships to identify leading indicators and key disruptive market trends, as well as to integrate strategy into governance. Nancy Falls's Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is the timely and relevant roadmap to leveraging those relationships into accelerated execution, exceptional performance, and quantifiable results.'' --David Nour, senior leadership and board advisor, best-selling author of Relationship Economics and Return on Impact
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom by Nancy Falls is an important book about how to maximize the performance of companies. Falls provides common sense guidance for members of boards of directors that is worth its weight in gold. Anyone who serves on a board would be well served to read this fine book.'' --Hap Klopp, founder and former CEO of The North Face, author, lecturer, and serial entrepreneur
''With a single word, 'concinnity,' Nancy Falls's landmark book captures the complex set of dynamics and qualities that enable true professional discourse. The book illuminates a concept, a goal, and most importantly, provides a clear framework for achieving this cherished balance of unique individual contributions and likeminded leadership. I've been privileged to observe Concinnity in the Boardroom, and believe the deep insights the author conveys through examples and imperatives should serve as a rallying cry for all leaders to strive for and demand nothing less than concinnity within their teams.'' --Suzanne Vautrinot, Major General (retired), United States Air Force and board member of Symantec, Ecolab Inc., and Parsons Corporation
''In ten concise chapters, outlining ten mandates for boards and management teams, Nancy Falls provides incredibly frank and insightful views into the dynamics of the boardroom and the C-suite. In a crowded governance marketplace, this is a must read for CEOs, chairs, and board members.'' --James Bradford, former dean of the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Business and board member of Cracker Barrel, Clarcor, Genesco, and Granite Inc.
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is a breakthrough in governance and leadership practice. Nancy Falls brings a sixteenth-century concept into the boardroom and the C-suite to show us with striking simplicity how to drive results, improve lives, and have more fun in the process.'' --Marshall Goldsmith, a Thinkers50 ''Top Ten Global Business Thinker,'' best-selling author, and top-ranked executive coach
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is a remarkable achievement. It manages to release the corporate director's role from the enclosing walls of governance, policy, strategy, and negotiation to enter the much broader, greatly enriched space of collaborative, collegial governance.
'Concinnity' helped me to discern the dynamics of boards as leadership teams. The ten imperatives at the core of the book each focus on the board process from a different angle, but the book layers experience and good sense to draw each more tightly into the coherent whole that Nancy Falls refers to as 'concinnity.'" --Donald J. Jonovic, PhD, Principal of Family Business Management Services and author of Outside Directors in the Family-Owned Business
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is the best book I have read about effective boards of directors. Learn best practices in selecting members, setting direction, keeping focus, and resolving conflict. If I had read this book thirty years ago I would have been more effective as chairman of my company.'' --Joe Scarlett, retired chairman, Tractor Supply Company
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom, a breakthrough governance book, creates a wonderful new framework for governing by focusing exclusively on ways to make sure that the CEO and the board are on the same page. There is expected tension between leadership and governance, but Nancy Falls has created a new framework that hits these tensions head-on, by exploring such topics as respective expectations and communication styles.'' --Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Esq., Member and Director, Epstein Becker & Green; President of Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry foundation
''Forward-thinking governance leverages relationships to identify leading indicators and key disruptive market trends, as well as to integrate strategy into governance. Nancy Falls's Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is the timely and relevant roadmap to leveraging those relationships into accelerated execution, exceptional performance, and quantifiable results.'' --David Nour, senior leadership and board advisor, best-selling author of Relationship Economics and Return on Impact
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom by Nancy Falls is an important book about how to maximize the performance of companies. Falls provides common sense guidance for members of boards of directors that is worth its weight in gold. Anyone who serves on a board would be well served to read this fine book.'' --Hap Klopp, founder and former CEO of The North Face, author, lecturer, and serial entrepreneur
''With a single word, 'concinnity,' Nancy Falls's landmark book captures the complex set of dynamics and qualities that enable true professional discourse. The book illuminates a concept, a goal, and most importantly, provides a clear framework for achieving this cherished balance of unique individual contributions and likeminded leadership. I've been privileged to observe Concinnity in the Boardroom, and believe the deep insights the author conveys through examples and imperatives should serve as a rallying cry for all leaders to strive for and demand nothing less than concinnity within their teams.'' --Suzanne Vautrinot, Major General (retired), United States Air Force and board member of Symantec, Ecolab Inc., and Parsons Corporation
''In ten concise chapters, outlining ten mandates for boards and management teams, Nancy Falls provides incredibly frank and insightful views into the dynamics of the boardroom and the C-suite. In a crowded governance marketplace, this is a must read for CEOs, chairs, and board members.'' --James Bradford, former dean of the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Business and board member of Cracker Barrel, Clarcor, Genesco, and Granite Inc.
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is a breakthrough in governance and leadership practice. Nancy Falls brings a sixteenth-century concept into the boardroom and the C-suite to show us with striking simplicity how to drive results, improve lives, and have more fun in the process.'' --Marshall Goldsmith, a Thinkers50 ''Top Ten Global Business Thinker,'' best-selling author, and top-ranked executive coach
''Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom is a remarkable achievement. It manages to release the corporate director's role from the enclosing walls of governance, policy, strategy, and negotiation to enter the much broader, greatly enriched space of collaborative, collegial governance.
'Concinnity' helped me to discern the dynamics of boards as leadership teams. The ten imperatives at the core of the book each focus on the board process from a different angle, but the book layers experience and good sense to draw each more tightly into the coherent whole that Nancy Falls refers to as 'concinnity.'" --Donald J. Jonovic, PhD, Principal of Family Business Management Services and author of Outside Directors in the Family-Owned Business
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781626342019 |
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