The Fish Rots from the Head: The Crisis in Our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

by Bob Garratt

As a Chinese proverb says 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organisations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt'sbestselling book that highlights the importance of effectivecorporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal boardroom standards that the recent credit crunch and ensuing global financial crisis brought to light.

This new edition builds on the Learning Board model developed by the author and now widely used internationally by corporations and public sector organisations such as the NHS. The result is a thought-provoking and highly practical book that will be invaluable to all those with responsibility for corporate governance - and also those who subject them to scrutiny.

What Sir Adrian Cadbury, whose committee's groundbreaking report on corporate governance was published nearly twenty years ago, said about the first edition remains as true today as ever:'No director can afford to ignore this book'.

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2011

Reviews

[Jamie Bowen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting book on the challenges of corporate governance, particularly in relation to the many corporate collapses because of failure of leadership. Well worth a read for anyone in corporate governance or looking to step into the C-suite.

[John Wharton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this a useful reading on leadership generally and C level leadership specifically.

[David Mitchell · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lots of good stuff yet the writing style, with its errors, jarred upon me. See my review: https://ozhamada-observes.blogspot.co...