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A Short History of Golden Parachutes

Harvard Business Review

Golden parachutes can’t seem to stay out of the news. Golden parachutes like these are hardly novel in American business. Golden parachutes such are now paid out even when executives leave amid scandal. Firms began adopting golden parachute-style payout packages in the late 1970s.

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This is a Post on Leadership

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Here is a paragraph describing a recent headline-dominating story about a fallen CEO and his (or her) golden parachute. Or, about the irrefutable need for leaders to posses some vague element of character, like trust or authenticity. On the last line I write, “That is true leadership.” Leadership satire'

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

The management team focused on coffee. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. Nabob, when Mr. Bell arrived, had too many brands, and lost money.

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

The management team focused on coffee. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. Nabob, when Mr. Bell arrived, had too many brands, and lost money.

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education. He was 62, a golden parachute strapped to his back, but no hobbies or interests beyond business.

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Marissa Mayer’s Departure from Yahoo and the Challenge of Drawing Lessons from an N of 1

Harvard Business Review

Although the fall of Yahoo was probably inevitable, our fascination with celebrity leaders has resulted in an extraordinary amount of interest in Marissa Mayer’s recent resignation as CEO, in particular her $23 million golden parachute. Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash.

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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief

Harvard Business Review

While some people recognize Kozlowski for his extraordinary success as a manager, many more remember him as the highly paid executive with an extravagant lifestyle, including his infamous $6,000 shower curtain, who was convicted of taking more than $100 million from Tyco. But like the meeting minutes, the directors’ testimony was unreliable.