Posts Tagged "CEO"

Goodbye Steve – Thanks for all the Fishes…

Posted by Larry Pollock on Aug 24, 2011 in Life | 5 comments

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.”

Steve

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A Lesson U.S. CEOs Can Take To The Bank

Posted by Larry Pollock on Mar 3, 2011 in Money | 15 comments

It seems that CEOs of US corporations don’t get it. Your company is in financial trouble and you layoff workers and close down plants. At the same time their income  is kept at the level they have become use to. Earning millions of dollars or even hundreds of millions of dollars while your company and it’s employees suffer is short sightedness. Even downright immoral!

An example that all CEOs should follow is that of the CEO of JAL Airlines in Japan. He cut his salary to less than the pilots that fly the planes. He takes the bus to work and eats in the cafeteria like all the rest of the employees. His fortune is tied to that of the company.

Watch this short video and see what should be, and may well have to be the future for heads of companies. Companies that pursue money first without a larger vision of their place in the world are doomed to fail.

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