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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.”. He wants to leave in his hero’s dalliances with his prison camp commander’s randy wife, his underground bookie operation, and the conniving girlfriend who bears the pilot an unexpected child. 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.”. He wants to leave in his hero’s dalliances with his prison camp commander’s randy wife, his underground bookie operation, and the conniving girlfriend who bears the pilot an unexpected child. After 10 years at Nabob Foods Ltd.,

CEO 100
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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

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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. In business, we are not spoiled for objective indicators of leadership performance.

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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief

Harvard Business Review

During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International. But like the meeting minutes, the directors’ testimony was unreliable.

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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

The employer has the right to change as well as terminate the qualified retirement benefit plan or even discontinue operations; thereby abandoning the policy restricting it for only business requirements. Golden parachutes: This is an agreement between the companies and the key professionals.