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Compliance & Conviction: The Evolution of Enlightened Corporate Governance

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Not having read anything really business related for quite a few years, I was pleasantly surprised at how informative and easy to read this book was. Each chapter is concise and well referenced, and written with the busy professional in mind. I have loaned this book out to a few friends who are involved in small corporate boards and they were as 'enlightened' as I was about how corporate governance can work to serve the interests of shareholders, board members, and the CEO.

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African-American business leader Curtis J. Crawford, Ph.D. (founder and CEO of consulting firm XCEO Inc.) presents Compliance & Conviction: The Evolution of Enlightened Corporate Governance, an insider's look at corporate failures of the twenty-first century - particularly the disasters precipitated by illegal business practices, though only a small number of business leaders have been convicted of such. Compliance & Conviction also examines the repercussions of those failures, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that renewed focus on corporate governance and what needs to be done to regain stakeholders' respect and confidence. Written in straightforward language for business leaders of all backgrounds, chapters discuss correlations between corporate governance and share value, executive compensation, director independence, evaluating board director performance, the impact of investor activism, and much more. A solid and insightful look at repercussions of headline-grabbing business scandals in modern-day business governance.