Board Ready: How to Secure Your Seat on the Board of Directors to Make an Impact, Advance Your Career, and Grow Your Income

Are You Board Ready?

That question was easier to answer a generation ago when board members found replacements among their like-minded colleagues and business leaders. If you were in the right network, you simply were board-ready.

But these days, and for good reasons, the process to vet and select board members is far more complicated. Organizations are seeking a wider variety of skills, backgrounds and perspectives as they replace outgoing board members. In Board Ready, Dr. Debra L. Brown an...