Cover Story

Director compensation:
Current trends and future expectations
By Kimberly A. Glass and James F. Reda
Pay for board service is seeing some important shifts — in who sets it, how it is set, and, following two years of little growth, increases in basic fees along with the setting of ‘leadership premiums.’

A new basis for director pay
By Donald Delves
Companies should consider basing director compensation on fundamental principles of board service. Through this lens, all becomes clearer.

Are directors underpaid?
The marketplace for governance talent has its own distinctive set of calculations and considerations, as our roundup of experts explain.

Private company board pay:
What an alternate universe
By Bernard H. Tenenbaum and Andrew Cornell
Our data prompts several questions: Are public company directors overpaid? Are private company owners cheap? Or, are they just better buyers of talent? A BDO vs. YPO match up of pay surveys.

Features

A seeker of what makes leaders tick
By Warren Bennis
One of the most renowned tracers of the ‘DNA of leadership’ has written his memoir of a life spent studying leaders in action. Plus, from the archives: Mr. Leadership interviews the Big Dogs.

Peer evaluation on the board: Let’s put some teeth into it
By Robert C. Muschewske
‘Earl, you can be annoying given your tendency to talk too much and blurt out your ideas in an undisciplined manner.’ That director was stunned by the peer critique, but the feedback had the desired result.

Book it: Best bets for board reading
From a roundup of new books, insights on the definitive list of leadership qualities, the role of the internal auditor, managing health care costs, the Big Shift (are you ready?), the dancing board member, and more.

My first board: David B. Nash, M.D.
Helping Humana ‘sort through the noise.’ As told to Kelly McCarthy

‘There Is Only One Answer’
By Richard L. Keyser
To the question — how can a board best serve the shareholders?

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