The purpose of this book is to get the reader acquainted with the basic features that run through the fields of corporate, public and global governances; to introduce the new subject of Governance Risks, within the context of organisations in a global economy; to provide a set of tailor-made tools and make them operational, so as to cope with governance risks. It also provides a clinical approach to diagnose and treat governance failures, the incremental cash-flow model that strongly articulates with the clinical approach, the index of governance performance, from which the metrics of governance risks evolves eventually. This book conveys a self-contained treatment based on step-by-step learning, from the basics of the subject through building blocks that deal with tools for decision-making, and ending up with the Governance-Risk Scoreboard.