Trump is a big businessman. He’s your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.
I was first hired at Staples in 1992, by company founder Tom Stemberg and eventual CEO Ron Sargent, to be the first director of marketing and merchandising for the catalog business.
I’ve spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.
We’re all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it’s their money.
My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.
Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM’s case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn’t make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn’t make millions of dollars.
Yahoo is a great company, and anyone should be proud to be CEO.
CEOs who can hire properly, that’s the most important part of the job. The CEO’s job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
It doesn’t matter what’s written on a coffee mug or on a ‘culture’ slide; what you do as a CEO, day in and day out, and how you behave will define your company’s culture.
Once I graduated college, I did a couple of different sort of unique internship positions, if you will. I spent three months in my mother’s office, who was then the CEO of our company, and I really got to just sit in every meeting that she had, and I would write down questions on a yellow legal pad.
I already have a job and being the CEO of Nvidia is a great privilege. It is once in a life time opportunity.
We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization’s top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.
I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.
The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don’t reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that’s true of people. And I think it’s true of countries.
The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!
I think I give myself high marks being an entrepreneur and entrepreneuring a big idea about how popular social gaming could be. But I learned a lot of hard lessons on the CEO front… and do not give myself very high marks as a CEO of a large-scale company.
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
I’d always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man – because that’s what I was reading about in history books growing up.
I hated being a public company CEO.
Initially, when we were running just one hotel in Gurgaon, I used to handle housekeeping, sales, CEO duties, etc. I would literally wear the OYO Rooms uniform for housekeeping and would show the room to customers.
Being a successful CEO, where I’ve driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that’s a critical benefit to running the state government.
