8th
November
2006
Instructions for new non-execs in managing an empty diary
“What is the hardest thing that company boards have to do? I can answer this with considerable authority, having been on a board for all of two months. The hardest thing is not strategy. It isn’t complying with hundreds of petty regulations. It isn’t setting the chief executive’s pay, or even sacking him. Doubtless, these things can be hard. But harder is arranging to meet at all.”

