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| About the Authors | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Leveraging Your Board's Leadership Capability | p. 1 |
| Leadership in Your Boardroom | |
| Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards | p. 25 |
| Why Your Board Needs a Non-Executive Chair | p. 51 |
| The Joint CEO/Chairperson Leadership Issue in Sharp Relief | p. 69 |
| First Among Equals: Leading Your Fellow Directors as a Board Chair | p. 85 |
| Talent... MORE | |
| Appraising Your Board's Performance | p. 123 |
| Getting the Right Directors on Your Board | p. 145 |
| Women Directors in the Boardroom: Adding Value, Making a Difference | p. 197 |
| Your Board's Crucial Role in Aligning CEO Pay and Performance | p. 227 |
| CEO Succession: The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Your Board | |
| Managing the CEO's Succession: The Challenge Facing Your Board | p. 253 |
| Beyond Best Practices: Revisiting the Board's Role in CEO Succession | p. 277 |
| Ending the CEO Succession Crisis | p. 313 |
| Improving Your Board's Performance and Impact | |
| How Your Board Can Leverage Team Practices for Better Performance | p. 337 |
| What Your Board Needs to Know: Early Warning Signs That Provide Insight to What Is Really Going On in Companies | p. 365 |
| Globalizing the Company Board: Lessons from China's Lenovo | p. 401 |
| Conclusion | |
| Conventional Wisdom, Conventional Mythology, and the True Character of Board Governance | p. 445 |
| Notes | p. 469 |
| Index | p. 501 |
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Jay A. Conger holds the Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is the coauthor of Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top, Building Leaders, and The Practice of Leadership as well as eleven other books on leadership.