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Alison Carnwath, Chairman, Land Securities Group plcThe chairman is charged with running the board, and should not be involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation. “The chairman has to ensure that the board has a good relationship with the chief executive, leaving him/her to run the business. It's not fair for a CEO to have to spend too much time worrying about the board”
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Operational Involvement of Non-executives
The board is rarely questioned when organisations are running smoothly. However, when operations go wrong, like BP, the board is held accountable and questioned about their knowledge of the missteps and their reasons for not getting involved earlier. In a July 9th opinion piece featured in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Norman Tebbit questioned the role that BP non-executive directors played in the crisis. “They should have been alert to the dangers of a lack of operational experience not only of their executive colleagues, but further down the line, among those immediately assessing the quality of sub-contractors’ operations,” writes Lord Tebbit.
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