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A Senior Consultant with Australian Strategic Services, Aaron assists boards and individual directors to not only understand what their duties at law are but understand key concepts underlying organisations and how these enable fundamental governance principles and practices.

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Directors Duties – Understanding Core Business

Directors’ duties, as prescribed by law, set the scene for how a board constructs and operationalises its governance model and structure, roles and responsibilities, policies and procedures and undertakes its work and activities. Beyond directors’ duties, a shared understanding between directors of the key concepts underlying their organisations (and their practical application) provides for more effective agreement on how their board and organisation will be configured, thereby enabling fundamental governance principles and practices to be enacted.

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Aaron Goldsworthy

Oct 11, 2021 · 5 mins

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