Directors today are also more likely to be involved in regular formal peer evaluations to improve board performance and, in some cases, to achieve director rotation.
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Heads of Nominating and Governance, lead directors and CEOs would have a much needed tool to finally do what needs to be done to improve board performance.
Proven performance results of board diversity: Numerous studies(from groups such as Catalyst and McKinsey) link better corporate performance and board diversity.
Improving a board's performance entails more than separating the roles of chief executive and chairman.
As a result, we would not expect the board to confuse performance over 3 months (a quarter) with 15 years (quindecennial).
All too often, the board words the performance criteria in "babel-speak, " says John Kapitan, senior vice president at Stern Stewart, a shareholder-value consultancy in New York.
Spice, who resigned as performance director of the RFU last April, will be part of a four-man board in charge of British Performance Basketball Ltd.
Monitor said it was also taking action against Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust because of its "board governance and financial performance".
The council must also set up an Improvement Board with an independent chairman and, within one month, agree a plan with that board to improve the performance of the adoption service.
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Mr Gove set out his plans to turn the school, which has around 900 pupils, into an academy last year and replaced the governing body with an interim executive board to monitor its performance.
The Tribune director also said the board was pleased with the performance of current CEO, Randy Michaels.
The Welsh Government said Education Minister Leighton Andrews "has made clear his plans to raise performance across the board".
Although they report that nearly one-third of their peers are barely adequate or worse as board members, rare--until recently--was the board that evaluated its own performance, whether of individuals or as a whole.
For all the difficulty of doing a rigorous evaluation in order to improve teaching performance across the board, I suspect it is a whole lot easier to identify the worst teachers in the school.
Krause is chairman of the board of BST, a safety performance consulting firm based in Ojai, Calif.
There will also be a review of the Performance and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) test for overseas doctors.
We have built in performance benchmarks across the board to ensure that we get new products and services--customised to individual country needs--delivered more quickly and more simply than ever.
There is growing demand for boards to undergo a formal evaluation process, to assess both the performance of each individual board member and how they work together as a group.
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His premise was that certain board governance factors lead to strong share performance.
But Richard Handler is handling his own these days and it appears his Board is satisfied with his more recent performance.
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K. Singh, chairman of the Railway Board, boasts of an even better performance in the first half of this year, with an increase of 18m tonnes.
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If the candidate delivers a thorough, well-presented, timely, and effective solution during the interview project, MocoSpace is likely to hire that person and get that same level of performance once the person comes on board.
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While sales were up across the board, it had recorded a "particularly strong performance" from fashion and beauty sales.
The SEC's position is somewhere in the middle, that board independence has nothing to do with improving fund performance but is useful in eliminating conflicts of interest--that is, in keeping the business honest.
The success of the proposals of Stephen Byers, Britain's trade and industry secretary, depends on institutional shareholders using their authority to make very high remuneration conditional on business performance and social responsibility a feature of board behaviour.
So we've got to upgrade across the board -- not just in poor, underprivileged schools, but across the board -- we've got to upgrade the performance levels of our young people.
Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board Councillor David Simmonds acknowledged there was a variation in performance across councils and recognise that at times the system has been risk averse.
Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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