As befits a man who, at a charity auction last summer in the South of France, sold a kiss for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Clooney has an unusually alert sense of his sphere of influence; he is more closely guided than most by a diligent inner director.
There's a solemnity to this silliness – perhaps in his diligent attention to authenticity director Martin Lloyd-Evans forgot that a healthy dose of hamming it up is key to the whole thing.
"All three of these directors were diligent and rigorous in terms of carrying out the board's oversight responsibilities," Richard D. Parsons, Citigroup's chairman, said in a statement.
"Investors rely on auditors and are betrayed when auditors fail to conduct diligent audits," said Thomas C. Newkirk, associate director for enforcement at the S.E.C. "In this case, senior management was looting the company, and Scalzo was confronted with numerous warning signs about management's integrity.
And some of the most innovative pictures weren't even in the competition at all.What particularly marked many entries was their directors' willingness, like diligent maths students, to show their films' workings in the margin.
Amid the many challenges confronting corporations and the growing expectations on corporate boards directors must be thoughtful about defining the skill sets needed around the board table and diligent in recruiting the right directors, planning for CEO succession and evaluating their own performance.
This post comes to us from Roy J. Katzovicz of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. Our experience with concentrated, long-term investments in large, public companies has taught us that the overwhelming majority of corporate directors are smart, diligent, and capable business people trying the best they can to faithfully discharge their fiduciary duties.
"Builders in Chapter 11 and lenders foreclosing on properties still under construction aren't as diligent about security," said Mark Ouimette, managing director at Beecher Carlson, an insurance company based in Atlanta that underwrites policies for homebuilders.
Casting is a pivotal element of the filmmaking process, and casting directors need to be diligent and unified in continuing their fight to finally gain that recognition". That recognition has been slow to come.
Diligent does not have a board of directors yet, but Kempel says EMC won't have a member on it.
