8 The Information Age Changes Everything

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: What Got Me Started ix
4. 1 CIBC: A Fork in the Road 1
5. 2 A Broken System 17
6. 3 When Seeing Is Not Believing 35
7. 4 Confronting Reality 51
8. 5 What Boards Should Do, but Likely Won’t 67
9. 6 Barbarians at the Gates 87
10. 7 Transformation: Easier Said Than Done 103
11. 8 The Information Age Changes Everything 123
12. 9 A New Governance Model 139
13. Acknowledgments 161
14. Appendix A: Timeline for GE Post Trian Partners Presentation 165
15. Appendix B: Selected History of the Thomson Corporation 169
16. Notes 175
17. Index 195