In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Those who follow my blog have an idea of how I’m spending my time as a retired CEO. Bottom line, I love the challenges of my CEO afterlife and I’m every bit as goal-oriented as I was thirty years ago. Looming retirement can be awfully daunting to a CEO, especially to those who define themselves by their job. Resourceful.
In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
When my business book Do Less Better was published, I had the pleasure of meeting National Post journalist Peter Kuitenbrouwer who interviewed me about the challenges facing an ex-CEO hell-bent on finding a publisher for his historical fiction manuscript. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”.
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In the CEO Afterlife
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
When my business book Do Less Better was published, I had the pleasure of meeting National Post journalist Peter Kuitenbrouwer who interviewed me about the challenges facing an ex-CEO hell-bent on finding a publisher for his historical fiction manuscript. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”.
In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 7, 2011
In the CEO Afterlife. Is There a CEO Afterlife? Those of you who have followed my blog have an idea of how I’m spending my time as a retired CEO. I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news. Last year, Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million after being ousted from his company.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 18, 2012
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. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. It is not about you.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 28, 2014
According to Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, “It’s not a business issue. Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. This is a moral and society issue.
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