PART FOUR

BUILDING AND LEADING A BOARD OF DIRECTORS

You can learn a lot about strategic planning, talent management and financing and execution from working in a company. You may do large pieces of those things every day and you may even lead some of them. One of the very unique aspects of a CEO's job is building and leading a board of directors. Unless you're one of the few non-CEO executives who spends a huge amount of time with your CEO and board, it's hard to practice building and leading a board until you're actually doing it.

This section will walk through the main aspects of managing a board, from recruiting board members to publishing materials for your board to consume, to running board meetings and making decisions, to working with your board on potentially thorny topics like your compensation or even the board's performance.