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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

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.”. The quintessential CEO has all the support systems. The management team focused on coffee. But ennui set in. “It

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

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.”. The quintessential CEO has all the support systems. The management team focused on coffee. But ennui set in. “It

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

Blow up the financial system? There's looting your local superstore — and then there's, as Nobel Laureates Akerlof and Romer discussed in a paper now famous among geeks, there's looting a bank, a financial system, a corporation.or Here's a state-subsidized bonus. Steal a video game? You're toast." (To an entire economy.