The Fish Rots From The Head

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The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director

By Bob Garratt

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The Fish Rots From The Head by Bob Garratt explores the critical importance of effective corporate governance, emphasising that leadership begins and ends in the boardroom. Updated to reflect lessons from major corporate scandals such as Enron and WorldCom, and the 2008 financial crisis, this third edition expands on Garratt's widely adopted Learning Board model. It provides practical guidance aimed at enhancing board performance across both corporate and public sector organisations.
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This book is ideal for directors, board members, corporate leaders, and governance professionals who seek to understand and implement effective leadership strategies within organisations. It is also valuable for those in public sector management and for stakeholders interested in corporate accountability.

How to develop the skills and practices required for effective and ethical corporate governance.

3rd edition

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Effective corporate governance is crucial. As a Chinese proverb says, "The fish rots from the head," and so it is with businesses and other organisations – the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book, The Fish Rots From The Head, has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s – Enron, WorldCom, Tyco – and the abysmal boardroom standards that the recent credit crunch and ensuing global financial crisis brought to light.

This edition builds on the Learning Board model developed by the author, now widely used internationally by corporations and public sector organisations such as the NHS. The result is a thought-provoking and highly practical book that will be invaluable to all those with responsibility for corporate governance – and also to those who subject them to scrutiny.

As Sir Adrian Cadbury, whose committee's groundbreaking report on corporate governance was published nearly twenty years ago, said about the first edition: "No director can afford to ignore this book."

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Tim Melville-Ross, former head of the Institute of Directors, calls it "an important contribution to the corporate governance debate and clear and intelligent advice on how to improve the performance of a board." The book is praised for its thought-provoking, practical insights, making it essential reading for anyone involved in or scrutinising governance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781846683299

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 December 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Edition: Main

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 196.0mm

Height: 128.0mm

Weight: 252g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Bob Garratt is a consultant, and academic working on board and director evaluation and performance, organisational change and strategic thinking. He has worked with companies of all sizes around the world as well as public sector and not-for-profit organisations, and he holds professorial positions at business schools in london and South Africa.