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Paradigm flaw: Operational oversight detracts from issues on which directors can add value

Boards should focus on maximizing long-term strategies

This article orginally appeared in the National Post.

Summary:

Most thoughtful participants in today's evolving corporate governance process would agree that the rapid proliferation of regulatory requirements, zealous enforcement initiatives and the cottage industry that has grown up around them may well retard actual performance. Rather than address the emperor's clothes phenomenon, such heightened regulatory attention to corporate governance has driven many further away from substantive improvements...

 

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
A Sweden-based consultancy, Enhancer practices time-span based analysis, executive assessment, and provides due diligence diagnosis to investors on acquisitions.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
A Toronto requisite organization-based consultancy with a wide range of executive coaching, training, organization design and development services.
Founded as an assessment consultancy using Jaques's CIP methods, the US-based firm expanded to talent pool design and management, and managerial leadership practice-based work processes