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26 Dissenting Directors

You're convinced that the CEO and your fellowboard members have picked a disastrous strategy. Your best course is toget them to change their minds. But what if you can't? It's a decisionmore directors will be facing.
Plus: How Three Dissenters Went Public–And What Happened to Them

September/October 2002

Features

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Suspicion! Is Your CEO Holding Out on You?
Your once-forthright chief executive has turned downright evasive. Is he hiding mistakes? Or is he a crook? Better find out what's going on.
Plus: 10 CEOs Who Let Down Their Boards
Five Red Flags to Watch Out For


42
Doing Business South of the Border, Down Mexico Way
Building relationships and curbing Yanqui impatience are keys to success. And yes, kidnappings and vehicle armor are the stuff of dinner-party conversation.


48
Filling the Shoes of a Legend at Southwest Airlines
Replacing the charismatic Herb Kelleher as CEO was always a tall order. But that's not his successor's only challenge.


54
How to Have Your Cake and Spend It, Too
Worried that a shareholder lawsuit may leave you broke? Here's a new form of trust that may let you protect your worldly goods—and still  get at them. But be careful.


57
Five Champion Boards (and five lollapa-losers)
A look at which directors did best by their shareholders - and who took them for a ride. One big surprise: GE's directors are among the losers.