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Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Story
SPOTLIGHT ON DIRECTORS: NEW SURVEY REVEALS THE HARD TRUTHS
Charged with acting as the early trip wires for corporate issues, directors have a few issues of their own to address. According to a comprehensive new local survey, these include their selection and evaluation processes and levels of expertise. It’s not a pretty picture, reports Ruth Le Pla.

Governance & Management
MAYORAL DRIVE: HOW GOVERNANCE WORKS IN NEW PLYMOUTH
It wins awards, woos customers and its balance sheet fair bounces with vitality. What’s going on at New Plymouth District Council? Mayor Peter Tennent and chief executive Rodger Kerr-Newell spill the beans.

Profile
BRIAN WEATHERLY: ON GOVERNANCE AND GROWTH
Software of Excellence, Auckland-based international supplier of dental software, discovered the pitfalls of board composition the hard way.

Bookshelf
GOVERNING THE CORPORATION: REGULATION AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN AN AGE OF SCANDAL AND GLOBAL MARKETS
An edited collection of presentations from governance practitioners, policymakers and academics who contributed to an international discussion organised by the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen’s University, Belfast, in September 2004.

PLUS
• EDITOR’S LETTER Calling for new blood
• TABLED Power is the people
• TABLED Gunning for Osama big pharma
• APPOINTMENTS