The five of us who serve on the board of directors function as one in the sense of one full-time chief executive officer, but each of us has our own area of the organization we head up.
But before television personalities like Heidi Klum saw fit to pass judgment on aspiring designers, the fashion director functioned as part sage, part seer, bringing to the job an educated — and impartial — eye.
The cabinet at the Frick doesn't hold the same range of marvels, but the current show of 10 drawings donated by Charles Ryskamp, a former Frick director, functions almost like a wunderkammer.
Emma Leech, head of marketing at Nottingham University, is taking part in a panel discussion in Leeds on Friday that will focus on research into how changing HE trends have affected the way marketing directors function.
Formal structures, definitions, and requirements may shape how directors discharge their responsibilities by focusing directors' attention on their gravity and, by enabling independent directors to function more collegially, facilitating the development of institutions of corporate governance that function independently of senior management.
A boardroom stocked with experienced and informed directors can function best when it is well led not only by the board chair or lead director but also from below.
Directors would function as facilitators rather than auteurs.
High-performing nonprofits benefit from having a board of directors that functions as more than a rubber stamp.
The old research director function seemed to just disappear into thin air".
"We believe that our current board makeup (with every director other than Mr. Dimon being independent) and strong presiding director function provide appropriate accountability to our shareholders and counterbalance to the combined C.E.O./chair role," the letter said.
For example, she laughed when showing a visitor the beau parlor, a chintz-filled room with flowers, and laughed again when asked if any men might have found their way into the women's rooms without the knowledge of the resident director, who functions in many ways like a dorm mother.
