Areas Quote by John Harvey-Jones

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or…

— Buddha

“The corporate boards need to focus on their own performance as well as the performance of the management team.”

— Pearl Zhu

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as…

— Mellody Hobson

“If you select companies on the basis of outcomes—whether success or failure—and then gather data that are biased by those outcomes, you’ll never know…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

“How deeply the corporate boards can dig and which questions they should ask will directly impact on the success rate of IT investment and…

— Pearl Zhu

All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the…

— Warren Buffett

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to…

— Brendan Rodgers

Diverse perspectives lead to a better outcome. There's so much data, when you look at the math, in terms of the investor returns and…

— Mellody Hobson

“The high performing board shows the ability and openness to “question itself, senior management team, and its decision/discussions.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these…

— Phil Rosenzweig

The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more…

— Scott Weiss

“Corporation performance Management is all about managing performance by that data (KPIs) which really matters.”

— Pearl Zhu