What I Know Now: The Book

What I Know Now covers the eleven things that actually determine whether a board makes a business better or lets it drift. Direct, experience-based, and deliberately short on theory. Each chapter ends with a single question the reader has to answer for themselves.

The chapters

  • Chapter One — Boards Should Make Things Better
  • Chapter Two — Leadership Is Behaviour
  • Chapter Three — Culture: What You Tolerate, You Get
  • Chapter Four — What Good Looks Like
  • Chapter Five — People Are The Work
  • Chapter Six — Strategy Needs Energy
  • Chapter Seven — Growing Beyond Yourself
  • Chapter Eight — The Exit You Haven’t Planned For
  • Chapter Nine — Family Businesses
  • Chapter Ten — Reputation