"Questions of company governance have been examined over the years, but this has generally been in areas concerning shareholders. Meanwhile the management team and board of directors remain comparatively unexplored. This book has been written to provide a way into this relatively unknown world...

"The book emphasizes an enterprise risk management approach that utilizes actual business data to estimate the probability and impact of key risks in an organization. While the approach is anlytical, the author has boiled it down to make it accessible to line managers and high level executives...