Archive · 28 Sep 2026
Book Review Highlights Everything Starts At The Top’s Boardroom Lessons
The book explains how company boards should make good decisions in a changing world.
Its authors are Srinath Sridharan and Agamjeet Dang.
They say boards must think about both today’s problems and tomorrow’s unknown risks.
Sometimes a risk may look like a promising opportunity, so boards need to examine it carefully.
Board members must keep learning new skills and sometimes change old ways of thinking.
Independent directors and board chairs have an important role when powerful promoters influence decisions.
The book gives readers questions and examples to help them judge boardroom choices.
It says future boards must help organizations remain trusted by a more skeptical society.
Srinath Sridharan and Agamjeet Dang’s book examines how boards can handle modern governance challenges.
The 224-page book is divided into six parts, including sections on governance, capability, and signals from the world.
The authors argue that boards must prepare for uncertain futures while overseeing current situations and chronic risks.
It emphasizes continuous learning, independent directors, board chairs, and the need to manage promoter influence.
The book offers governance questions and five lenses: architecture, stewardship, trust, digital resilience, and technical foresight.
- Who
- Authors Srinath Sridharan and Agamjeet Dang wrote the book, which is aimed at directors, board chairs, independent directors, and boardrooms.
- What
- A review of Everything Starts at the Top: Building Boards of the Future, a guide to modern corporate governance and boardroom challenges.
- Where
- The book addresses governance in boardrooms and gives particular attention to India’s changing accountability environment.
- Why
- The authors seek to help boards prepare for uncertainty, improve decision-making, manage emerging risks, and preserve institutional trust.
- Book
- Everything Starts at the Top: Building Boards of the Future
- Authors
- Srinath Sridharan and Agamjeet Dang
- Publisher
- Rupa Publications India
- Length
- 224 pages
- Price
- ₹450
- Structure
- Six parts
- Governance lenses
- Governance architecture; institutional stewardship; trust and reputation; digital and cyber resilience; technical foresight