Authentic Governance

Over the past years, we have heard and read plenty about how executives should behave more responsibly in the light of corporate governance. Despite all these efforts, many implementations of corporate governance provide no protection from potentially catastrophic ethical failures. This book emphasizes the introduction of a new corporate governance blueprint for addressing these concerns in a more authentic, organic and holistic way. It is a roadmap toward a high-performance ethical culture. By way of this innovative system, Dr. Hubert Rampersad and Saleh Hussain, MBA, are launching a revolutionary concept that actively has human capital embedded in corporate governance in a manner that creates a stable basis for the personnel’s trustworthiness, integrity, and engagement and ethical corporate excellence.

Featuring numerous case examples and practical tools and exercises, this book will help the reader learn to:

• Develop, implement, and cultivate authentic personal governance and corporate governance effectively
• Create conditions for sustainable corporate governance
• Increase their personal effectiveness
• Develop their personal integrity effectively and become a better human being
• Develop ethical personal leadership
• Develop a highly engaged workforce, based on high ethical standards
• Create a high-performance culture and enhance the competitiveness of their organization
• Create conditions for an organizational climate marked by self-guidance, creativity, passion, and ethical behavior
• Develop a culture in which personal integrity and business ethics is a way of life

Prof. Hubert Rampersad, PhD., MSc., BSc., is an authority on governance, leadership and human performance management. He holds a PhD. in Management, an MSc in Technology Engineering, and BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from leading universities in the Netherlands. He is founder of TPS International Inc. in the USA (www.tps-international.com), president of Business School of the Americas (www.bsa-edu.org) and prominent author of the books Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity; Personal Balanced Scorecard: The Way to Individual Happiness, Personal Integrity and Organizational Effectiveness; TPS-Lean Six Sigma: Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma - A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance Companies; Authentic Personal Branding: A New Blueprint for Building and Aligning Your Brand; and Be The CEO of Your Life: The Ultimate Authentic Personal Branding Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd, which have been published in many languages and endorsed by leading professors at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan and Yale School of Management. His was featured in Fortune Magazine and BusinessWeek and he taught at MIT Sloan (MIT Leadership Center). Dr. Rampersad has conducted seminars for leading companies such as: Nokia, Philips Electronics, Lucent Technology, ABNAMRO Bank, and Shell Oil Company. He can be reached at h.rampersad@tps-international.com.

Saleh Hussain, MBA, is a Bahraini National with a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Brunel University in the United Kingdom. He has been in banking since 1970 and held number of senior positions in the sector such as CEO of banks and deputy chairman of the Bahrain Bankers Society. He is a successful author and leading expert on corporate governance. He has authored a number of books on the subjects of corporate governance, social responsibility and management. His latest books are Corporate Governance: Middle Eastern Perspective (2007); Corporate Governance: Quantity Versus Quality, Middle Eastern Perspective (2009); and Corporate Governance: A Guide for Boards and Senior Executives towards Implementing Corporate Governance in Bahraini Companies (2011). He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences inside and outside Bahrain on corporate governance. He is the president of Saleh Hussain Consultancy, through which he provides training and consulting in this field. He also sits on a number of boards of directors of banks and financial institutions in Bahrain and other GCC countries. Saleh Hussain can be reached at sh@shcbahrain.com, www.shcbahrain.com.