© Jennifer C. Wolfe 2020
J. C. WolfeDisruption in the Boardroom https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6159-0_1

1. Old Rules vs. New Rules of Business

Jennifer C. Wolfe1 
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Bluffton, SC, USA
 

How the underlying business models have shifted and what we need to do in the decades ahead to blend the best of both worlds.

We need good corporate governance now more than ever which requires directors to embrace
  1. 1.

    Intellectual honesty

     
  2. 2.

    Moral courage

     
  3. 3.

    Discipline for continuous learning

     

We’ll go through each attribute in this chapter and in Chapters 2 and 3. Let’s start with intellectual honesty. To embrace your intellectual honesty , you must seek out more than one opinion on issues, challenge your own assumptions, accept that your long-held beliefs may no longer ...

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