
Beverly Behanis the managing director of the Board Effectiveness Practice of the Hay Group and co-author of Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance. She writes "The Boardroom" for BusinessWeek.com/Managing/.

Ram Charan, co-author of the international best-seller Execution and an adviser to business leaders and corporate boards worldwide, is the author of Leaders at all Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, to be published by Jossey-Bass in December, 2007.

Kevin P. Coyne is senior teaching professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and the founder of The Coyne Partnership. He was formerly a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. He writes The Strategist monthly for BusinessWeek.com/Managing.

Nikos Mourkogiannis, author of Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies, is a senior executive adviser to Booz Allen Hamilton on strategic leadership issues.

Kurt Ronn is the president and founder of HRworks, a national recruitment firm that helps major companies acquire talent to build their organizations. He is a contributing columnist for BusinessWeek.com.

Michael Watkins professor of general management at IMD (www.imd.ch) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-founder of Genesis Advisers (www.genesisadvisers.com), a leadership development consulting firm. He is the author of The First 90 Days and co-author of Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them.

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. She was the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.