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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

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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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

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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Shame On Our Apology Economy

Lead Change Blog

Last week the CEO of Wells Fargo, a bank that’s been around since 1852, testified before Congress about the egregious wrong-doings committed by employees in his company all in the name of meeting sales goals. Crime exposed, the CEO, John Stumpf, apologized…but is that enough? The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen.

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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief

Harvard Business Review

On January 17, Dennis Kozlowski will be released on parole by the State of New York after serving an 8 1/3 year sentence in the state’s tough prison system. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International. But like the meeting minutes, the directors’ testimony was unreliable.