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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. 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. The move succeeded: Nabob became the top coffee brand in Canada.

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. 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. The move succeeded: Nabob became the top coffee brand in Canada.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes. It is not about you.