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|author=Gerry Brown
|title=The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide to Effective Board Presence
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=In the United Kingdom independent directors are usually known as non-executive directors to distinguish them from the executive – those people charged with actually running the company on a day-to-day basis - but Gerry Brown usually refers to them as independent directors, a phrase which is common in other parts of the world. Initially, I found the phrase somewhat unusual but as I read ''The Independent Director'' I came to prefer that usage as it stresses what the director must be above all else – independent and able to stand back from the management of a business and view what is happening and what is planned with a dispassionate and critical eye. There's little in the way of training and it can be argued that no one is actually qualified to do the job, but Brown's book is as good as you're going to get in terms of spelling out the responsibilities and pitfalls.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>113748053X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Platt
|summary=If you are in business the chances are that you know there are areas in which you need help, or - at the very least - could improve. Sometimes it's quite difficult to quantify ''where'' you need the help, but you're probably quite sure about what you ''don't'' need and that's best summed up as too much science, jargon you don't understand or anything that you have to wade through to come up with the conclusion that you were doing it roughly right in the first place. A good starting point is a book which you can dip into as you need and which edges your thinking into areas it's not been into for a while.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250790</amazonuk>
}}
