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The Realpolitik Of The Unlisted Company Board: Making Your Board An Engine Of Growth - Content and Context Paperback – February 15, 2020

by Mike Baliman (Author)
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What, beyond simple legal necessity, is the real purpose of a Board in NewCos through to pre-IPO Companies? How do you do it well? How and why is it done badly? In what way do successful serial entrepreneurs approach the Board dramatically differently from inexperienced first-time Founders?

The Realpolitik of the Unlisted Company Board answers all these questions and many more based on conversations with eighty experienced UK SmallCo Board members - Founders, CEOs, Chairmen, SmallCo and BigCo NEDs, Angels and VCs - whose Board experience ranged from relatively little to, in some cases, over half a century. Interviewees’ combined experience of Boards amounted to thousands of man-years.

The content, the larger part of Realpolitik, features over four hundred quotes from interviewees. Done well the Board can turbocharge your Company’s success, done badly it can prevent it. Realpolitik lays out a ‘warts and all’ map of the territory, of what happens in the real world. An archetypal example is a quote from a Founder: “my Board meetings are shit”. This is the world of Realpolitik. Life doesn’t always work out right does it? What do you do then? What led to this outcome for this Founder and many more? What are the ways out of this? How might you avoid this fate with your Board? How might you not just avoid angst but build a great Board? Realpolitik answers all these questions and more by crowdsourcing way more experience than any Director could possibly gain in a single lifetime. It will thus be of incalculable value to Founders, current SmallCo Directors and those who invest in SmallCos.

The contextual chapters of Realpolitik are of much wider interest to all Directors and students of the Company and cover the eight essences of the SmallCo Board, the history of Boards and their governance from their 16thC inception and an examination of 21stC Board challenges. Bizarrely, in a world where the governance of Companies is so tightly regulated, the history thereof is amazingly poorly understood, if understood at all. This is of no mere academic interest: most of the thornier 21stC challenges for all Company Boards and Directors have their roots in decisions made long ago.

"'Realpolitik' represents an immense body of work. Mike Baliman has approached the subject with the detailed analysis typical of probably the first Global Head of Risk in the City - for Kleinwort Benson then the City’s pre-eminent investment bank. He has combined that with the precision of thought which emanates from his original trade as a software engineer, tempered by his experience of fund management which has given him great insight into what the ‘market’ wants from companies. Finally he has drawn upon the tremendous breadth of knowledge he has mined from interviewing major City and commercial figures for his hugely successful Fintech podcast. These include luminaries such as Lord Turner, the former Head of the FSA, Sir Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, the leading economist Professor John Kay as well as many others." Brian Basham, Chairman, Director, Angel and serial entrepreneur for over fifty years including founding and floating the Broad Street Group.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084QM5D1Z
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (February 15, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8602167986
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.84 x 9 inches
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Mike Baliman

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I am a Non-Executive, Board Advisor and Director with over 30 years board level experience with particular experience in the, financial services and technology industries. I am an authority on Entrepreneurial Governance past and present

My first role was as the twelfth joiner in a startup in Bath. Eighteen months later when I left there were 55 people. I then moved to Kleinwort Benson where I was first the youngest Head of Fixed Income Fund Management in the City and then the first Global Head of Risk in the City. Over this period Kleinworts was acquired and had grown from an organisation of some low thousands to high tens of thousands.

I have now been independent for 23 years, have been a Director for over thirty years and have worked with all scales of business from microbusinesses to ones of over a third of a million employees including founding my own Fintech long before they existed. My London Fintech Podcast is the most blue chip and oldest podcast in its sector running for some six years and with over six hundred thousand downloads in 193 countries worldwide. Guests have included not just the leading tech businesses in London but important figures such as the Lord Mayor of London, Lord Turner the last Head of the FSA and Sir Paul Tucker former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.

My career led me to be fascinated with what makes some companies grow and some fail. My network of hundreds of the latest hottest new companies as well as the old solid companies gave me an excellent network to source nearly one hundred interviews to discuss the role of the Board in the success of Unlisted Companies (I am told all of these factors apply to Listed Companies too - they just have more bureaucracy to wade through).

"Realpolitik" includes not just those interviews distilled into thematic chapters but two chapters taking a deep dive into the history of the Board - very poorly understood.

Finally to summarise the research with one soundbite - successful serial entrepreneurs know one thing that first time founders often take some time to painfully discover. Done well the Board can turbocharge a company's success. Done badly it can thwart it.

My passion in this project is to use my unique network to crowdsource what works and what is to be avoided and to use my podcasting experience to ensure that the account is not dull. In doing so I hope to benefit the Unlisted Company sector which is the bedrock of our economy. Better companies lead to happier employees, better products and services, more employment and money for the economy and last and most importantly a better society for all.

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Peter Renton
5.0 out of 5 stars An engaging take on an under appreciated topic
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2020
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I learned quite a lot by reading Mike's book. He takes a fairly dry topic and I think makes it very engaging. He has a very readable style, uses lots of colorful examples and I found the book was just a gold mine of information. Putting together a board right now, if you're an entrepreneur and running a fintech company, you really should read this book to make sure that you are getting the most out of your board.
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Coenraad de Vos van Steenwijk
5.0 out of 5 stars Een must-read voor nieuwe commissarissen
Reviewed in the Netherlands on June 16, 2022
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Wat een waardevol boek! Mike Baliman weet een potentieel taai onderwerp met zoveel Britse humor te schrijven dat het verrassend makkelijk wegleest. Ondertussen komt hij als geen ander tot de kern van wat 'corporate governance' zo'n lastig werkgebied maakt, en hoe hier in praktische zin een succes van te maken. Inspirerend, nuttig; een must-read voor nieuwe (en bestaande) commissarissen!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful read. Decades of experienced distilled into direct and actionable advice.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2021
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I am the chairman of a small family holding company. Last October, we decided to formalise our Board, and I ordered a copy of Baliman's book because I thought that it would be fascinating to learn from an experienced entrepeneur and non-executive director who comes at this from a very different background to my own world of marketing.

This book contains much wisdom and “lessons learned” (often the hard way, I daresay), and I have since recommended it to at least two of my clients across the Pond who are, right now, building boards too.

My own copy is now falling to bits, and covered in ink where I underlined key sections that were especially relevant to my current challenges and furiously scribbled down my own thoughts. Fantastic read.
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for business founders with ambitions to grow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2020
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This is a great "how to" guide to setting and managing a board - from the startup to exit. The right board will turbocharge your growth, and the wrong one will be a serious drag on performance. Mike distils the wisdom of 80 experts, bringing in the perspectives of NEDs, VCs and founders, to tell you how to get this key aspect of business right. There's more to it than many people might think at first, and it's not just about compliance, or some cosy mentoring. If you are a startup founder, an investor or somebody with ambitions to work as a NED, then this book should be essential reading to make sure you avoid the most common pitfalls, have productive meetings and stay out of jail!
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Julian
5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference work with insights from many real world situations
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2020
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This is not a book you read cover to cover - it is a great piece of reference material that allows you to dip in on specific areas or situations that you are interested in as you work in or with an unlisted company board. Once you dip in you often find your self reading further than intended and gaining real world insights from founders, board members, CEOs and chairman who have been through the journey you are on. Useful and entertaining reading.
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Chris Jillings
5.0 out of 5 stars So much more than a boardroom guide
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2020
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Written with energy and bubbling intelligence, this is more than just a business self-help manual. The historical analysis, wide range of reference points, and political/philosophical observations are intriguing and make one question whether some of the established “truisms” of our social/business framework are really the best way to organise ourselves for the public good. Not just the “Smallco” businessman, but politicians, regulators and academics will find this stimulating reading.
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