Issues face-off

The last year has seen corporate secretaries vault into the headlines: selective disclosure, managed earnings, audit committees, and of course the ongoing corporate governance revolution. You might think, then, that the chairman of the very busy American Society of Corporate Secretaries should have a sedentary day job in some corporate backwater. Not. Both the incoming and outgoing chairpersons of the ASCS can boast of on-the-job experiences during the past year that are about as frenetic