The job of the board of directors is the least developed element in enterprise, whether public, business, or nonprofit. Incorporating insights from Mill, Hume, and the social contract philosophy of Rousseau, as well as the servant-leadership concept of Greenleaf, the author's Policy Governance®...

Corporate governance exists for one reason and one reason alone: to ensure that shareholders' values, as informed by knowledgeable agency, are transformed into company performance. To the extent a board fails in this, no matter how many other useful things it accomplishes, it has failed. To the...