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This book is a practical and readable guide for board directors of small, mini and micro-cap companies. Because board members of smaller companies wear more hats than their counterparts of large and mid-cap companies, they need to take care not to cross the line separating their independence from operating management.
- Sales Rank: #3081358 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .27" w x 5.51" l, .34 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 114 pages
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has put this wonderful little book together because when he reached retirement age ...
By Alan Davis
Review of the book The CEO and Board Member’s Survival Guide by William Kraut, CPA, MBA, CITP, published by CGW Publishing 2015.
If you are a doctor, lawyer, accountant, a computer whiz, entrepreneur, or a middle level manager in receipt of an invitation to join a board of directors or you are a recently elected member of a board of directors of a small company, public or private, this book is for you. Indeed, its subtitle is Strategic Governance For Small to Mid-Cap Entrepreneurial Organizations That Capitalizes on Opportunities and Minimizes Risk. Its author, William Kraut, himself a CPA and the holder of an MBA and CITP, has put this wonderful little book together because when he reached retirement age at one of the New York metropolitan area’s very large accounting practices, he was asked by various managements running small and medium sized companies to join their boards. He could find “very little that addressed the uniqueness of life in small company boardrooms.” While his search produced many examples of materials for would-be directors of a Fortune 500 company, his own experience suggested that growing a start-up, small cap, or private family businesses raises issues unique to such businesses and frankly the issues raised are often life threatening to the enterprise.
Kraut had a 30+ year stellar career as a CPA and is a certified information technology professional as well as a chartered global management accountant; nevertheless, this book is neither a legal treatise nor does it deal with the intricacies of GAAP accounting. Rather, Kraut’s intention is for it to be a “practical and readable guide for boards of directors of small . . . companies.” The book succeeds in delivering the author’s promises.
With its notes, charts, highlighted takeaways, quotations from famous and successful business executives such as Warren Buffet and Rupert Murdoch as well as many bullet point lists, it is no longer than 112 pages in length. While it does not contain an index, it has a very useful and detailed table of contents and is written in simple, plain English without a lot of legal, accounting or MBA jargon. It is divided into five sections in the following order: Strategic Development; Leadership Development; Board Meetings, Board Committees and Advisory Councils; The Board’s Role in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Countering Cyber Risk.
To begin, the author points out, and properly so, that in this era of litigiousness, there is no longer room for a half-hearted discussion to guide your father’s or grandfather’s service on yesterday’s boards of directors. Attending board retreats for the sake of a round of golf is no more the norm; therefore, the author asks the uninitiated new board member to use this handy guide as a course in survival because he writes there “is no longer a free ride.” He views his book as a policy guide not only for new board members but also as a refresher for veteran board members not only with regard to the for-profit world but also many of his points, at least in this reviewer’s experience, have applicability to the world of not-for-profits such as hospitals, colleges and universities.
Each Section is chock full of good advice and much information concerning the role of a board member. The difference in responsibility between a board member and senior management is the difference between oversight and execution. Another admonition is this takeaway: “do not consider a board membership unless you are willing to accept due diligence as a way of life.” He viewed “the essence of the CEO’s job [as] strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation”; and makes the point that “board members should keep in mind the phrase ‘arm’s length’ as a guide to a relationship with operating departments.” There is a useful chart that puts a lot of meat on the foregoing bone with respect to the differences between managing operations and providing company leadership by the board of directors. Another chart spells out the kinds of committees that a well-structured board maintains and the purposes of these committees. He also favors the company’s liberal use of advisory councils who do not have any fiduciary or legal standing, or for that matter any power, but are invaluable in helping a company to solve problems. There is an excellent chapter on the board’s role in M&A and the extreme value of board due diligence which if mishandled very often leads to the failure of the M&A post closing. He wisely points out the vast difference in due diligence between selling a business and buying a company. There is also a wonderful section on countering cyber risks. Finally, in the form of a job description there is a wonderful chart setting forth 18 bullet points relating to a board member’s duties and responsibilities undertaken by the board as a whole and by each individual board member on behalf of the company.
As a corporate lawyer in his 50th year of practice, this reviewer has attending hundreds of board meetings of clients whose revenues could be categorized as in the lower half of the mid-market. Some of these companies were publicly held, more were controlled entrepreneurially by families of several generations or the same generation of siblings and/or cousins. I have also attended hundreds of board meetings and committee meetings as a trustee in the not-for-profit world. Notwithstanding all that experience, I have nothing but praise for Mr. Kraut’s efforts in organizing the material and presenting it in a clear and simple manner. If I had only one suggestion to contribute, it is that from my own experience with respect to standing and ad hoc board committees. I would have made a major point somewhat more strongly than did Mr. Kraut to the effect that, at least in my judgment, the boards that I found most productive in terms of the oversight of the entire enterprise, whether it be for-profit or not-for-profit achieved the most success in the context of oversight by delegating as many of its functions as it could to small well-led committees of the board. I say this particularly with respect to larger boards; and, I would have emphasized the importance of committee reports or minutes as being submitted for acceptance by the entire board at each meeting of the board as opposed to being shunted aside to a consent agenda where the reports/minutes often go unread by the board as a whole and therefore voted on as a formality. This one point however in no way takes away from Mr. Kraut’s solid work which is in this reviewer’s opinion a must read not only by new board members by way of an introduction to what they can expect in their new role of oversight but also as a refresher for directors of longstanding who might otherwise forget the framework in which they are expected to perform.
Alan E. Davis, Esq.
Partner, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
Woodbridge and Roseland, New Jersey
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A must have guide for mid-cap boards
By Mary Kay Scucci, PhD, CPA
As a previous board member for a public small-cap firm, “The CEO and Board Member’s Survival Guide” is a must have for smaller firms. In one compact guide Bill Kraut provides board members with a source of solid advice. He begins with strategy development, includes board leadership development, mergers and acquisition advice, and provides a special section for one of the most critical risks facing board members today “cyber risk”. This guide is an impressive one-stop source of critical advice.
This is truly the perfect guide for mid-cap entrepreneurial firms and is complete with compelling anecdotes, practical information, charts, highlighted takeaways (“survival tactics”) and references for more detailed information.
Mr. Kraut has provided a guide that brilliantly provides a foundation for long-term, sustainable governance between the board and the companies they serve. Definitely required reading for all who seek to bring out the best in their boards.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good, practical advice.
By Barbara
This book is a relatively short read, giving lots of examples of the challenges and opportunities board members face. I especially liked the beginning, where the author shares the differences between board membership in the 80s and now. It's not for the faint of heart. I recommend this book to those who have been asked to be a board member and are undecided. I also liked the part where the differences between official board membership and advisory board membership was made clear.
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