{"id":3702,"date":"2018-01-06T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:46:00","slug":"what-does-well-governed-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"What Does &#8220;Well Governed&#8221; Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Ten years of ongoing research on organizational trustworthiness has Trust Across America concluding that well-governed companies are less prone to crisis and more profitable over the long term.<\/p>\n<p>One need not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forrester\/2017\/12\/05\/ubers-uber-breach-a-stunning-failure-in-corporate-governance-and-culture\/2\/#4e3b639e2879\">look beyond Uber<\/a> to the fallout of a corporate governance failure. Yet, as a business leader, my definition of \u201cwell governed\u201d may not necessarily align with yours.<\/p>\n<p>If your current or past experience includes Independent Lead Directorship, Board Chair or CEO (either active or retired), would you kindly take a few minutes to respond in writing, with short answers, to the following questions?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does\/did the term \u201cgood corporate governance\u201d mean to you?<\/li>\n<li>What are\/were some of the key governance practices you find\/found most useful to good corporate governance?<\/li>\n<li>What are some suggestions you have for improved corporate governance in the future?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope to receive 50 responses to be published in a special upcoming governance issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/trustacrossamerica.com\/magazine.shtml\">TRUST! Magazine<\/a> as well as in a series of articles.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not want to be identified, that works too, but please respond with the following information.<\/p>\n<p>Name:<\/p>\n<p>Title:<\/p>\n<p>Company:<\/p>\n<p>Can we publish your response with your name and title?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please reply directly to me: <a href=\"&#x6d;&#97;i&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;:&#x42;&#x61;&#114;b&#x61;&#x72;a&#64;&#x74;&#x72;us&#x74;&#97;cr&#x6f;&#115;s&#x61;&#x6d;&#101;r&#x69;&#x63;&#97;.&#x63;&#x6f;m\">&#66;a&#x72;b&#x61;r&#x61;&#64;&#x74;&#114;u&#x73;t&#x61;c&#x72;o&#x73;&#115;&#x61;&#109;e&#x72;i&#x63;a&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;<\/a>. We are hoping to collect your response no later than February 1, 2018, in time for our publication. Thank you in advance for your participation.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Brooks Kimmel<br \/>\nCEO and Cofounder<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-best-social-bookmark\"><ul class=\"socials\"><li class=\"oknotizie\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oknotizie.virgilio.it\/post.html.php?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3702&title=What Does &#8220;Well Governed&#8221; Mean?\" title=\"Share this on oknotizie\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"twitter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=What Does &#8220;Well Governed&#8221; Mean? &raquo; https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3702\" title=\"Share this on twitter\"> <\/a><\/li><li class=\"delicious\"><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=3702&title=What Does &#8220;Well Governed&#8221; Mean?\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a business leader, my definition of \u201cwell governed\u201d may not necessarily align with yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[404,397,426,390],"tags":[122,18,202,201,135,144,252,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}