Chief Executive (U.S.)

The Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas, TX, is the course Dick Brooks likes to play the most. And not surprisingly, it's also where he finds his favorite golf hole. "It's the par-four seventh," explains the 63-year-old head of Central and South West,...

The Quest for Cosmic Justice By Thomas Sowell. Free Press, A division of Simon & Schuster. $25.00, 189 pp. Thomas Sowell is a joy to read. One reason why is that he and I share many of the same dislikes-ultra liberal and ultra conservative politicians,...

These days, CEO pay is more closely aligned with shareholder interests than ever before. But too many compensation committees blindly follow competitive practice and ignore the potential unintended consequences of highly leveraged compensation. The result?...

I've got that ugly feeling that executive compensation is getting out of hand again, although some people think it was never really in hand. The press is running more and more stories of preposterous termination payoffs to fired CEOs, amazing offers...

Web-based business-to-business exchanges hold the promise of rewiring the world economy, but as usual, the promise is well ahead of the reality Sorting the hype from the benefits, three B2B providers size up the implications of Net marketplaces for CEOs....

Some say IT is on its way out... but the announcement of its demise may be premature. Research analyst Bobby Cameron published a report in January called "The Death of IT," in which he tolled the bell, not for information technology itself, of course,...

Companies are leading initiatives to solve the ongoing IT skills shortage, hoping their efforts will soon bear fruit. If you fear this may be just one more story to sound a warning knell about the IT skills shortage-not too worry. We are, all of us,...

Nice guys get chopped in half. Just ask Bill Gates. "We've been writing great software for the past 25 years," Microsoft's sweater-clad chairman smiled in a TV ad launched June 8. "It's our passion and it will always be. The best is yet to come." Gates...

The Internet, as it currently exists, is a mess. Because of the huge number of sex-oriented Web sites that exist in cyberspace, parents are terrified to leave the house, fearful of what sleazy domains their teenage boys may wander into while their guardians...