CHRO Literature

The Talent Masters itself stems from a unique combination of talent: During a forty-year career at General Electric, Bill Conaty worked closely with CEOs Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt to build that company's world renowned talent machine. Ram Charan is the legendary advisor to companies around the world. Together they use their unparalleled experience and insight to write the definitive book on talent—a breakthrough in how to take a business to the next level.

The National Academy of HR and the NAHR Foundation, under the leadership of Cornell School of ILR Professor Patrick Wright, recently published The Chief Human Resource Officer, Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders which captures the experience and advice of some of the nation’s leading CHROs and academics on key HR issues. The majority of the contributors, in addition to being Fellows of the National Academy of HR, are CHROs of HR Policy Association member companies, many of whom are Association board members. The Chief Human Resource Officer provides insights on some of the most challenging leadership issues facing experienced and newly appointed CHROs alike.

This comprehensive reference presents all the knowledge, models, and frameworks needed to implement and sustain superior corporate governance. Writing for directors, officers, and other stakeholders, two leading experts synthesize current research, covering compensation, CEO labor markets, board structure, succession, risk, international governance, reporting, audit, institutional and activist investors, governance ratings, and much more.

Despite the many changes in governance regulation over the past decade, few boards function as a true corporate asset to the companies they oversee. In this book, Behan offers practical advice that a CEO, Chairman or board member can introduce at the very next meeting. Boardrooms are filled with intelligent, accomplished people--yet seldom achieve their full potential and add the kind of value for the CEO, executive team and company shareholders that many boards are actually capable of.

Boards That Deliver gets beyond the rhetoric of corporate governance reform. It captures the tried-and-true practices used by high-performance boards. In contrast to experts who base prescriptions on number-crunching exercises, Charan identifies the real problems that drain directors' time and suppress their best judgments???and explains clearly and succinctly how boards can solve those problems. These battle-tested solutions help boards achieve what rules and regulations alone cannot???to get succession right, refine a winning strategy, and design a rational CEO compensation package.