Reviewing financial statements, audit activities, and compliance activities are all part of the work required of board members to keep the company running on the right path. But the most successful boards do far more than this, focusing on more forward-looking, value-creating, strategic issues.
Top Boards Do These 4 Things Differently
Real leadership is about more than reviewing financial statements.
February 10, 2020
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Summary.
In a survey of 750 board directors, Russell Reynolds Associates found that top-performing boards were 10 percentage points more likely to list strategic planning or review as a top area (69% vs. 59% for the broader director population), 7 percentage points more likely to list oversight on major transactions (36% vs 29%), and 6 percentage points more likely to list CEO and management succession planning (29% vs. 23%). Along the same lines, directors of top-performing boards were also more likely than others to report engaging in enterprise risk review, board refreshment activities, and crisis management scenario planning.
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