“Good boards are created by good chairmen”

A good (or bad) chairman can lead to a good (or bad) board of directors. “Our study emphatically shows that bad chairmen nurture bad boards” was cited in 2008. “Good boards are created by good chairmen” was stated by the Financial Reporting Council in 2011.
 
“The old adage that there are no good or bad boards, only good or bad chairmen is increasingly true” was cited in 2014.
 
   
Google Books
Leading the Board:
The Six Disciplines of World Class Chairmen
By Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
2008
Pg. 201:
Our study emphatically shows that bad chairmen nurture bad boards.
 
Financial Reporting Council
GUIDANCE ON BOARD EFFECTIVENESS
MARCH 2011
Pg. 2:
The Role of the Chairman
1.4. Good boards are created by good chairmen. The chairman creates the conditions for overall board and individual director effectiveness.
 
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ICSA
‏@ICSA_News
‘Good boards are created by good chairmen’ - Sir John Egan #futureboard #corpgov #chairmen http://bit.ly/kgj9Sq
5:55 AM - 25 May 2011
 
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Strathmore Business School
October 8, 2012 ·
Leading the Board…... ‘Good boards are created by good chairmen’ So what makes a Great chairman? Strathmore Business School
 
Management Today
By Andrew Saunders Friday, 26 September 2014
What Tesco’s £250m Septimana Horribilis Says About Boards
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Battered Tesco chairman Sir Richard Broadbent will be even gladder than the rest of us that Friday has finally rolled around and that he is still in a job - for now anyway.
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The old adage that there are no good or bad boards, only good or bad chairmen is increasingly true, and the job calls for a rare combination of self-assurance and emotional intelligence. ‘Chairmen need to have “done it” and have nothing to prove,’ says Sorrell. ‘They must be comfortable in their own skin. You can’t have two people running the company.’