THE END CAME WITH ALL THE BITTERNESS of a military surrender. For weeks General Motors chairman Robert Stempel had tried to ignore the signals of discontent radiating from a hostile band of outside directors.
What Went Wrong? Everything at Once.
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Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports
It’s no secret that sports is all about leadership, whether that leadership comes from the best athletes, coaches, even commissioners and owners. Their voices are sturdy and commanding in the huddle or the boardroom
Jim Sinegal
In an era of CEO pay gone wild, Jim Sinegal is the steal of the century. The co-founder and chief executive of Costco earns a salary of just $350,000 , richly refuting the boardroom notion that CEOs of billion-dollar corporations require pay packets to match
The Problem with Superman
In the boardroom at DC Comics, a life-size statue of Clark Kent sits in a chair reading the Daily Planet. Lately the talk is probably making him a little nervous.