Meet the directors from hell

Beware the egocentrics, hesitaters and hand-grenade throwers.

Those are the personality traits of corporate Australia's worst company directors, according to boardroom blue-bloods including Michael Chaney, Belinda Hutchinson and David Gonski.

Holding a host of board positions used to be the ideal way to ease into retirement, but the bloody campaign by James Packer to remove Echo Entertainment chairman John Story and the play by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart for representation on the Fairfax Media board reveal just how ruthless the role has become.

"It is no longer a cushy number," warns The Managing Director of Korn/Ferry Australasia ... READ MORE

Released by Australian Financial Review - 21 June 2012