A laziness grew up that meant that if the artistic directorship didn't really like a play they could always shove it on Upstairs, as a way of hedging their bets.
It became clear as Watson delved into Sinodinos's involvement from his first introductions, to his agreement to take on the AWH directorship, to his rise to the chairman's role, that the temporarily stood-aside federal assistant treasurer did not appear to be on top of his brief.
Certainly in the case of Nelson (appointed by a Labor government as Australian ambassador to Nato and the European Union, and to the memorial directorship) Australia's secular shrine has become ever more visible.
The former chief constable of South Yorkshire police who told a parliamentary committee he was ignorant of child grooming in Rotherham has resigned from his directorship at a top children's hospital.
That was why he turned down the secretary generalship of Nato after his spell as defence secretary, and the managing directorship of the International Monetary Fund after his time as chancellor.
He had to withdraw his acceptance of a directorship with Guinness, whose 1986 take over of Distillers had been condemned by the STUC.
Yet here was the master strategist of the Liberal tribe taking up a $200,000 directorship in a company, Australia Water Holdings, which is now being investigated by Icac for billing taxpayer-owned Sydney Water while it was carrying out water and sewage contracts around Sydney.
Even so, Mr Montezemolo is adding that job to the weighty burdens of the chairmanship and managing directorship of Ferrari, Fiat's high-performance car subsidiary and Formula One business, as well as to the chairmanship of Confindustria, the employers' confederation, that he took over on the day Umberto Agnelli died.Mr Montezemolo will not be alone at the top.
One of Mr Rossi's first moves after taking over was to ask one of his predecessors' close associates, Carlo Buora, to choose between his job as the company's executive deputy-chairman and his managing directorship at Pirelli, a tyre company where Mr Tronchetti Provera's family is the largest shareholder and which is also Telecom Italia's biggest shareholder.
He also serves, or has served, on the board of numerous local and global companies including until its recent acquisition by News Corp Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal.This directorship led to his costly brush with the SEC.
But a directorship "is no longer the sinecure it once was," according to this web-only article.For one, an increasing compliance burden makes for a much heavier workload.
