Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Boards (with Bonus Article What Makes Great Boards Great by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld)

<p><b>Keep shareholders happy <i>and</i> manage for the long term.</b></p><p>Earning a board seat is a rite of passage. But directors must juggle many responsibilities from steering company strategy managing risk and appointing leaders to setting the right incentives meeting shareholder expectations and dealing with activist investors. How do you balance it all?</p><p>If you read nothing else on boards read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the <b>Harvard Business Review</b> archive and selected the most important ones to help you set your board up for success.</b><p>This book will inspire you to: <ul><li>Ensure you have directors who can meet company goals<li>Establish a robust succession-planning process<li>Encourage the risk-taking that will generate breakthrough innovation<li>Prioritize the health of the enterprise without neglecting shareholders<li>Provide the critical support a new CEO needs to succeed<li>Ignite nonprofit board members by engaging them in work that matters<li>Take on the world's toughest economic social and environmental problems</ul></p><p>This collection of articles includes What Makes Great Boards Great by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld; Building Better Boards by David A. Nadler; The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership by Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine; The New Work of the Nonprofit Board by Barbara E. Taylor Richard P. Chait and Thomas P. Holland; Dysfunction in the Boardroom by Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell; The Board's New Innovation Imperative by Linda A. Hill and George Davis; Managing Risks: A New Framework by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Ending the CEO Succession Crisis by Ram Charan; Comp Targets That Work by Radhakrishnan Gopalan John Horn and Todd Milbourn; and Sustainability in the Boardroom by Lynn S. Paine.</p><p><b>HBR's 10 Must Reads</b> paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership strategy change managing people and managing yourself. <i>Harvard Business Review</i> has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.</p>