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Living the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

He was 62, a golden parachute strapped to his back, but no hobbies or interests beyond business. Oh, and one other thing, if you’ll pardon the marketer coming out in me. Some find happiness pursuing interests that evaded them during the demanding years in the C-suite. Painting didn’t turn out to be the answer.

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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. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. As with other sustainability issues, the social and business consequences are inseparable.

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Stop Making CEO Pay a Political Issue

Harvard Business Review

Firms do market research consulting customers, but don’t put them on the board. Even if boards only cared about maximizing shareholder value, they should be consulting with employees and looking for ways to keep them happy. But there’s a big difference between consulting employees and putting them on the board.

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