http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-man-behind-the-curtain/ The strategic role of the senior executive Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:12:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-man-behind-the-curtain/comment-page-1/#comment-3011 Corporate governance must be grounded in ownership despite the difficulties | Managing Leadership Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:09:20 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-man-behind-the-curtain/#comment-3011 [...] Over the past few days we’ve seen how difficult it can be to identify who really owns today’s publicly-held and traded companies, what they truly want from that ownership, and how they actually communicate that intent and interest. It must be said that, for those of us who argue that the owner’s rights must be given active primacy in the scales of power for corporate governance to function properly, the results of our review do not bode well for that actually happening. [...] [...] Over the past few days we’ve seen how difficult it can be to identify who really owns today’s publicly-held and traded companies, what they truly want from that ownership, and how they actually communicate that intent and interest. It must be said that, for those of us who argue that the owner’s rights must be given active primacy in the scales of power for corporate governance to function properly, the results of our review do not bode well for that actually happening. [...]

]]> http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-man-behind-the-curtain/comment-page-1/#comment-3002 Why it is so difficult to determine what owners of corporations want | Managing Leadership Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:06:24 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/2008/02/05/the-man-behind-the-curtain/#comment-3002 [...] We briefly reviewed, yesterday, one generally well-known aspect of the anonymity of owners in today's publicly-held companies - the difficulty of determining who, really, they are, or who are their proxies through whom they own these companies. But that only points to the really key frustration in this equation, the question: What do they want? [...] [...] We briefly reviewed, yesterday, one generally well-known aspect of the anonymity of owners in today’s publicly-held companies - the difficulty of determining who, really, they are, or who are their proxies through whom they own these companies. But that only points to the really key frustration in this equation, the question: What do they want? [...]

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