Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Boards of Directors Have Failed and We Don’t Know Why.

Chapter 2. The Many Forms of the Modern Corporations.

Chapter 3. Contemporary Directors: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and How Well Do They Do It?

Chapter 4. Best Board Practices and Assessments: Necessary but Not Enough.

Chapter 5. The Traditional Board: The Triumph of Structure.

Chapter 6. The Effective Board: Function Not Form.

Chapter 7. Effective Directors for Effective Boards: Putting Them Together.

Chapter 8. The Director Behavioural Types.

Chapter 9. A Special Type pf Director: The Chair of the Board.

Chapter 10. “C-B-S-R”—How to Build a Better Board.

Chapter 11. The Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance.

Appendix A: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies: How Do They Differ?

Appendix B: The Research Process: Getting into the Boardrooms, Obtaining the Interviews and Analyzing the Data.

Bibliography.

Index.