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Chief Executive (U.S.)
Magazine providing full scope of CEO lifestyle and experience. Includes news, CEO profiles, and strategies.
Articles from No. 147, September
An E-Network for CEOs
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We're calling it the e-network for CEOs. To get to our new Web site set your browser to www.chiefexecutive.net. Our plan is to expand it from an informational site, where one can find current and back issue articles and features, to one where CEOs may...
Building a People-Center Culture in the D-Age
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Over the past 20 years, the American economy has undergone a radical shift from an industrial economy to a technomy. As we move into the "digital age," a phrase coined by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the MIT media lab, organizations must...
Catch a Rising Star
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Almost every CEO I know complains that his company has too few young, smart, aggressive managers--or, to put it bluntly, not enough long-term candidates for the CEO and top management positions that will open up in the years ahead. "Why not," I suggest,...
CEO Compensation: Greed or Glory?
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IT'S BEEN ANOTHER BANNER YEAR FOR CEO PAY-AND FOR PUBLIC OUTCRY OVER THE HEFTY PAY PACKAGES THE NATION'S BUSINESS LEADERS ARE TOTING HOME. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DUBS IT "GREED GONE WILD,"WHILE BUSINESS WEEK ASSERTS, "IN TODAY'S MARKET, THE ONLY TRUE...
Don't Shoot the Messenger
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Standard & Poor's, the New York-based ratings agency, has news for all of Germany-in fact, for most of Europe, if not all the world. In recently downgrading Germany's largest bank, S&P was not shy in naming names. Rather than point to the usual...
I Pledge Allegiance to This Company
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All companies believe the customer is king, don't they? Sure. But some companies go beyond the rhetoric-transforming satisfied customers into loyal allies. Not long ago I flew on British Airways with my bother and our families from the U.S. to $cotland...
Letters
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STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES To the Editor: I applaud Bernice Kanner's attention to CEOs' involvement in the development of groundbreaking advertising ("100 Best TV Commercials," CE: June 1999). Communications decisions are too often delegated to lower-level...
Not Just an Ordinary Share
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A revolutionary new financial instrument simultaneously debuted on 21 of the world's primary stock exchanges last November 17. With that grand gesture, the newly merged DaimlerChrysler launched history's first global ordinary share. While co-chairman...
Now for the Hard Part
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In his first 18 months as CEO, Michael Armstrong announced $140 billion worth of acquisitions, an amount equal to 71 percent of AT&T's current market capitalization. He's raising expectations as he turns Ma Bell into an edgy, coaxially cross-dressing...
Pulling Rabbits out of Hats
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hough she shares his last name, Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, couldn't be more different than her infamous father, Hugh-he of the smoking jacket-topped silk pajamas. Hef, Playboy's founder and former CEO, is known more for unfailing enthusiasm...
Six Sigma at the Sixth
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It was a warm and cloudless day in late February when 64year-old Larry Bossidy stepped to the tee of the sixth hole at the Floridian Yacht & Golf Club and pulled out his five-wood, He hadn't been playing particularly well that day and didn't expect...
The $ Channel
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A consortium of 168 major multinational corporations have banded together to form The $ Channel, a cable TV network devoted exclusively to the world of business. But unlike previous and existing channels such as the Financial News Network and CNBC, which...
The Lessons of Policy Failures
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Recently I was asked to speak on the greatest public policy failures of the '90s. There were plenty to choose from, but as I pondered them, what struck me anew was the difference that leadership-specifically, strategic leadership-at the top can make....
Who "Owns" the Customer?
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What is the future of financial services? There's a scramble for customers representing a $2.7 trillion asset pie. "The financial services industry has entered a period in which all prior notions about products, delivery, and internal organizations must...
