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Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER STORY: BOARD EFFECTIVENESS
Do Boards Work?
And why directors don't deliver profits
Do boards really influence organisational outcomes? Some Massey University research suggests we might need to "re-think board architecture".

GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
High Voltage Harmony: The clean contact strategies of Genesis' Brian Corban and Murray Jackson
One's an Australian-born engineer and the other an Auckland-born lawyer and historian but Genesis' CE and chairman have a strong working chemistry.

ETHICS
Boardroom Ethics - Developing a culture
Juliet McKee reviews the Corporate Governance and Ethics Conference held at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney.

REMUNERATION
Pay for Talent - and for performance
To meet the increasing talent and skill shortages New Zealand must be more willing to embrace meaningful performance-based remuneration for senior executives.

VIEWPOINT
Governance - Kiwi style
New Zealanders do seem to be heavily influenced by what is considered overseas as "best practice" management and governance. Is there any such thing as governance Kiwi style?

LEGAL
Director Independence: Setting the standard
Companies listed on the NZX will shortly be subject to mandatory independent director requirements. What will this mean for the governance of publicly listed companies?

INTERVIEW
Fig Leaf Boards
Shareholder activist and leading world expert on corporate governance, Robert Monks, says CEOs, not boards, hold all the power.

plus

EDITOR'S LETTER
• Research to Reflect On

TABLED
• Engineering Good Governance
• Appointments
• Board Women are Hard to Find

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