The Chairmans Club - Topical Briefing Papers

Topical Briefing Papers

Leslie Dighton writes occasional papers on topical issues of strategic interest to members, the most recent being ‘Turmoil in Markets!: Is My Board Good Enough? How Do I know?’ They are designed to describe new patterns and turning points which are in the process of developing as a context for provoking fresh understanding by institutional leaders of the constantly changing tension between the external environment and the internal orientation of the firm. Sample titles are as follows:

Turmoil in Markets: Is My Board Good Enough? How Do I know?
The Management of Imagination
Putting a Price on Top Management
Global Mergers and some pending Disasters
The Need for Global Organisations to be Untidy
The Role of the Country Manager
The Role of Headquarters
Corporate Responses to a New Eastern Europe
Greater Europe? The Single Market and Eastern Europe
The Need to Tap the Full Potential of employees
Living with your Matrix
Harnessing the Board - a Question of Balance
The Restless Corporation and the Urge to Mutate
The Restless Corporation and the Search for Stability
The Restless Corporation - What it Needs to Know and How it Understands
The Great Secular Trends of the New Business World and their Consequences
What Went Wrong with Strategy?
Strategic Buoyancy - Where Tomorrow’s Profits Come From
The Temptation to Reorganise
Where have all the Managers gone?
What should Headquarters really do?
Improving the Management Stock - the Secret of Sustained Performance
Rainmaking………or ‘Tshitole’
Franchise - the Licence to Success
Franchise - Where are you on the Map and where is the Leverage?
How to Focus and Feed your Franchise
The Grammar of Value Creation
Energising Ordinary Companies to achieve Extraordinary Performance
The F Factor at Work
The Daisy Chain of Success and Failure
Crime and Punishment - New Frameworks for Strategy
Is Managing a Large Organisation a Boring, Low Status Job?
What Makes a Good Partner? - and How do you Know?
Frightened by the Internet? What Jack saw that he couldn’t see before
e-Dot.Corps - Revolution in the old Economy
e-Tensions in the Management Model
Governance or Competition for the Soul of the Board
Governance or how Boards can become more like Elephants
Governance - where it’s at ‘over there’ post Worldcom
Governance - a contrarian agenda for mitigating risk and re-balancing the Board
Governance - finding the bridge between wealth creation and ‘conformance’
Virtuous cycles - balancing the erogenous zones of the Board
Virtuous cycles - what external directors really need to know
Virtuous cycles - the use and abuse of corporate culture
Virtuous cycles - competing through productivity and superior execution

Should you wish to receive a copy of any of the above please contact the Club Secretary, Victoria Furzer.