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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. POW camp full of homicidal Nazis.

CEO 100
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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. POW camp full of homicidal Nazis.

CEO 100
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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes. It is not about you.