What are the best practices of a highly-effective board?
What are the warning signs that a board is becoming dysfunctional?
What can you do to change direction when you believe you need to?
What role can you play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of your board?

Richard M. Levy, PhD, of Varian Medical Systems shares anecdotes from his past experience of how boards can affect companies for good or ill.

It was with great sadness that we learned the news last weekend of the passing of SVNACD board member Mike Hackworth.
Mike was one of the great pioneers of the Silicon Valley, having built two of the great semiconductor companies in this area’s history: Signetics (now NXP Semiconductor) and Cirrus Logic. CEO and then board chairman at Cirrus for over 27 years, Mike grew that company from its earliest stages. In the process, Mike and Cirrus Logic invented the world’s first PC graphics chips and was one of the first fabless …

from BDO Board Reflections

Richard M. Levy, PhD, of Varian Medical Systems discusses how the board can safeguard the “soul” of a company.

Directors weigh in on why you should join NACD.

Interview with: Dave House, Chairman of the Board of Brocade Communications Systems
Hosted by: Mark Lonergan, Founder and Managing Partner of Lonergan Partners

In recent years, virtually all boards acknowledge that an annual board evaluation is required by “best practices.” How that evaluation should be done, by the board members themselves or by outside “experts” still remains an open matter. And whether these evaluations, either internal or external, are in most cases useful in improving board performance or in “weeding out” nonproductive directors, is also a matter open to …