Fundamentally

What is your rightful position?

Few directors have been properly selected for the job; for many, their appointment has been due to being liked or a lucky decision.

To identify your starting point for board membership, please click on Download board_selection_diagnostic.xls

This provides the basis for your promotion campaign; however to be fully effective you will need additional selection tools. Contact steve@ascot-interactive.com for more details

Why Company Directors Are Often Untrained

The role of the majority of directors is to take a company into the future, yet many are bogged down by reporting and compliance - backward-looking activities that detract from the real job of making progress and ensuring sustainability.

Training offered by the majority of organisations is directed to compliance and reporting because there's an established syllabus [the regulations] and it doesn't need a lot of thought; in short - it's boring.

For a more reasoned argument, have a look at: Download climbing_the_greasy_pole.pdf

You might also enjoy as a bit of background this other posting: http://fundamentally.typepad.com/blog/files/four_types_of_person.pdf