Author(s): Bob Garratt

Business | Non-Fiction | Psychology

As a Chinese proverb says, 'The fish rots from the head' and so it is with businesses and other organizations - the buck starts and stops in the boardroom. This third edition of Bob Garratt's bestselling book that highlights the importance of effective corporate governance has been extensively updated following the corporate scandals of the early 2000s - Enron, WorldCom, Tyco - and the abysmal boardroom standards that the recent credit crunch and ensuing global financial crisis brought to light. What Sir Adrian Cadbury, whose committee's report on corporate governance was published nearly twenty years ago, said about the first edition remains as true today as ever: 'No director can afford to ignore this book'.