Value Creation for Owners and Directors : A Practical Guide on How to Lead your Business

1 Introduction: Corporate Ownership -- Part I Hardware: A Value Creation Framework -- 2 The Primacy of an Owner’s Mission -- 3 The Board of Directors: Governing the Mission -- 4 The CEO and the Executive Team: Responsible for Executing the Mission -- 5 Goals, Strategies, and Fundamentals -- 6 Fundamentals: Financing and Risk -- 7 Control and the Corporate Board -- 8 Obsolescence and Counterfactual Thinking -- 9 MGSF and the Three Boards -- Part II Software: Effective Collaborative Processes and the Need to Manage Self -- 10 Delusions, Confusion, and Biases -- 11 Biases in Action and How High-Performance Teams Address Them -- 12 Fair Process Leadership: The Path to Positive and Collaborative Dynamics for Owners and Their Directors -- 13 Fair Process Leadership Illustrated: Applications to Owners, Board Members, and Executives -- Part III Humanware: Owners as Leaders and Value Creators -- 14 Profiles in Ownership -- 15 Transitioning to Ownership and Developing as Owner -- 16 Ownership in the Twenty-First Century: Closing Thoughts.