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He was 62, a goldenparachute 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.
I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change. He was 62, a goldenparachute strapped to his back, but no hobbies or interests beyond business. Painting wasn’t the answer. Leadership.
He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. The goldenparachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. Go into the drug store, see what they had on the shelf, and take an order,” he recalls. Mr. Bell became a consultant.
He climbed the advertising and marketing ladder, and eventually became marketing director at Nabob Foods in Vancouver. The goldenparachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. Go into the drug store, see what they had on the shelf, and take an order,” he recalls. Mr. Bell became a consultant.
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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 goldenparachutes.
They are hedge fund tycoons; “private equity” barons; privateers who have bought the natural resources of entire countries whole; CEOs with goldenparachutes the size of small planets. At this juncture, I’m sure that defenders of free markets will complain: Who are you to say that anyone shouldn’t be super-rich?
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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.
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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