Quotes About Board

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

Executives are there in part to add diversity to board debate through their detailed operational experience. They are not there to act as ciphers of the chief executive.

The chairman must take the lead responsibility for the board development processes.

board as a whole, there is a particular need to learn how to be comfortable with being constructively critical

The rule of thumb at present seems to be that directors must not serve more than a total of nine years, three times a three-year service contract.

the wider consequences of a strategic decision needs destructive testing, especially by the board.

test is: can the key trends be shown to the board on no more than two sides of A4 paper?

Directors need to be happy constructively questioning and criticizing each other,

The key point is that independence of thought is demanded of all directors when on a board.

The traditional joke stereotype of the board is 'the unworthy appointed by the unwilling for the unnecessary'.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

I see companies these days where thoughts of "exits" are foremost in the minds of top management and board, and it is so clear that this value will infect the decision making down to the smallest choice by the most junior employee. Do we create something that is good, or just that seems good and might get us acquired or funded?

From the Maycomb County Citizens' Council. Didn't you know we have one?" "I did not." "Well, your father's on the board of directors and Henry's one of the staunchest members." Alexandra sighed. "Not that we really need one. Nothing's happened here in Maycomb yet, but it's always wise to be prepared. That's where they are this minute.

I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.

In the ideal scenario, consultants work for a board, and they're helping the board check on certain aspects of management. Their work is made public and transparent.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Radha Krishna Sir, the director of 'Jil,' had seen 'Madras Cafe' and liked my acting in it. He wanted a performer and so got me on board.

I have always been skating, either with skateboards, ripsticks, longboards - so it's been really easy to get used to the electric board. And no, you don't have to wear certain shoes. I love to wear my crocs!

To be out there in the Olympics skating the board that's actually my own and a company that me and my homies have started. It's a special feeling and it's only more motivation to go out there and kill it.

Muckleroy began to hear from friends in the business, as he later recalled, "that we were huge on the wrong side of a trade." But so unconcerned were the Enron brass that at the company's mid-August board meeting, the Enron board increased Borget's trading limits by 50 percent. One skeptical Enron executive who attended that meeting returned to his office and told a colleague: "The Enron board believes in alchemy.

The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched on the diners' knees when food was served. Over time, the word board came to signify not just the dining surface but the meal itself, which is where the board comes from in room and board. It also explains why lodgers are called boarders.

He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him.