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From Corner Office to Novelist

In the CEO Afterlife

I bailed from the corner office with a golden parachute strapped to my back and started a consulting business. To be successful, I’d have to learn how to write fiction – I read every self-help book I could get my hands on. I faced reinvention at 47 when the company I lead (Jacobs Suchard) was sold to Kraft Foods.

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. We talked about how to focus it.” One wonders whether spending years on this long, character-driven novel didn’t teach him how to be a better writer in a way that made the non-fiction book so good.”. After 10 years at Nabob Foods Ltd.,

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. We talked about how to focus it.” One wonders whether spending years on this long, character-driven novel didn’t teach him how to be a better writer in a way that made the non-fiction book so good.”. After 10 years at Nabob Foods Ltd.,

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

In other words, business should wait to be told how to address the issue. As more people begin to see income inequality as a negative “externality” — an unintended but damaging consequence of decisions that businesses make to boost profits — how should managers respond? This is a broader society issue.” according to Bloomberg.com.