In this title, an expert on corporate governance shows how boards of directors can and must change to abide by laws like Sarbanes-Oxley - and improve overall performance. For generations, the cozy, standard model of boardroom leadership was simple: the CEO was also Chairman of the Board, and directors rubberstamped his initiatives. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act forced radical change on all U.S. public corporations. The board must now hold sessions without management, key committees have tough new independence rules, and all board members now face an unavoidable legal responsibility to provide truly independent oversight of the corporation. Missteps can put companies and individual directors in serious legal danger. The result is an urgent demand that corporate boards develop their own confident, independent leaders from within. But how? That's what governance expert Ralph Ward explains in detail.