Chief Executive (U.S.) back issues from December 2006:
Are you ready for 2007?(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Dec 01, 2006; ... As we look at next year and beyond, business leaders will be facing a new horizon. Between a lame duck Republican executive and a newly energized Democrat controlled legislature, politically it seems likely that the middle ground will be underexplored. On social issues there is little ...
Aviation reform redux.(FEEDBACK)
Dec 01, 2006; ... Here we go again, with more claims of an impending crisis in the U.S. air traffic control system to support proposals for privatization and user fees for general aviation ("Solving Airspace Gridlock," July/August 2006). After 40 years of repeated attempts to impose a new FAA funding ...
Private point.(FEEDBACK)
Dec 01, 2006; ... I read with interest both Robert Poole's article and the AOPA ad in the latest issue (October/November 2006). I'm amazed that Phil Boyer, president of AOPA, would suggest to any CEO that a high-tech business such as air traffic control can best be run by the federal government. Would any ...
Steering innovation: can George Nolan, CEO of Siemens USA, continue to drive double-digit growth?(MANAGEMENT)(Interview)
Dec 01, 2006 ... Siemens Medical Solutions of Siemens AG with headquarters in Malvern, Pa., and Erlangen, Germany, is one of the largest suppliers to the health care industry in the world. The company is known for bringing together innovative medical technologies and health care information systems. ...
Thorns & roses.(CEO WATCH)
Dec 01, 2006 ... THORN ... To SANJAY KUMAR, the former CEO of CA Inc., who admitted to artificially boosting revenue figures by more than $2 billion in 1999 and 2000 to bump his own performance-based bonus to $5.6 million. Adding injury upon injury, Kumar let the software company front $14.9 ...
Thorns & roses.(CEO WATCH)
Dec 01, 2006 ... ROSE ... To MILTON FRIEDMAN, the Nobel Prize winner and most influential economic mind of the 20th century, who died at the age of 94 last month. Friedman was the first economist to truly note the massive power of the U.S. Federal Reserve's actions on the stock market. ...
Confidence continues to climb.(CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX)(Survey)
Dec 01, 2006 ... RALLYING with strong stock market performance, Chief Executive's CEO Confidence Index rose for the second consecutive month, according to 223 top executives surveyed. The index rose by 2.4 points to 159.2. Polling was conducted during the election cycle. Positive developments in ...
The numbers.(CEO WATCH)
Dec 01, 2006 ... What are your top 3 issues for your business in 2007? [GRAPHIC OMITTED] <Pre> Attracting and Developing Talented People ...
Become an activist CEO: unlock value by building a culture of innovation.(THOUGHT LEADER)
Dec 01, 2006; ... IBM's 2006 global survey of 765 CEOs provided insight into the vital role of innovation in driving success. These CEOs noted that internally, the greatest roadblock to executing a successful innovation strategy is an "unsupportive culture and climate." But how does one address what appears ...
Running the rapids: how do you manage risk amid constant change?(THOUGHT LEADER)
Dec 01, 2006; ... In a punishing and unforgiving world for CEO performance, long-term planning is a luxury. Not long ago, CEOs could operate like commanders of great ships on ocean journeys. They could plan far ahead, chart a course and delegate execution to their able management team. Course corrections ...
Are you built to last? Your survival as a CEO may depend upon it.(THOUGHT LEADER)
Dec 01, 2006; ... With an average CEO tenure of 48 months, the chances that you will survive a two-decade run--as Jack Welch did at GE--are slim. To find out what makes leaders last, I teamed up with Stanford's Jerry Porras, co-author of Success Built to Last, to conduct two major studies focused on ...
Globalization and its discontents: how can CEOs of multinational companies skirt globalization hurdles? Follow these four policies.(UNCOMMON WISDOM)
Dec 01, 2006; ... President George W. Bush's grand vision is of a Western-style "democracy world," where all countries have a similar system of selecting their leaders in a majority-rule, one-person-one-vote, free election. Chinese President Hu Jintao's grand vision is of an Eastern-style "harmonious ...
Agenda 2007: their voices span industries and the United States; their ideas cover the hot topics facing all corporate leaders today. CEOs from a wide range of industries, including home improvement, media, financial services and supply logistics shared their viewpoints and perspectives with Chief Executive as they look to 2007 and beyond.
Dec 01, 2006 ... Risky Business Gregory C. Case, president and CEO Aon, Chicago, III. "The emergence of today's reasonably affordable terrorism risk insurance capacity is directly attributable to the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) of 2002 and its subsequent ...
A New Year's resolution for CEOs: no special deals; Seeking special immunities and sweetheart deals from the regulators is a mug's game where everybody loses.(AGENDA 2007)
Dec 01, 2006; ... The usual role of lawyers is to advise management about the legal risks and advantages of proposed business plans. It is not their job to make the tough business judgments about basic business strategy. The balance, however, turns when the issues on the table involve the choice of the ...
Five tough issues for CEOs and boards: these critical concerns aren't going away. Deal with them now and other challenges will fall into place.(AGENDA 2007)
Dec 01, 2006; ... For a brief moment, U.S. corporations seemed to have weathered the storm. Then came the options backdating scandals, the boardroom train wreck at Hewlett-Packard and the continuing tide of CEO firings. Now it's tough to make predictions about the coming year--but we can make some educated ...
Driving diversity in the boardroom: do where males fill nearly all your board seats? Here's how to bring diverse perspectives to your board--without compromising your standards.(AGENDA 2007)
Dec 01, 2006; ... Angelique X. Irvin knows the importance of boardroom diversity firsthand--what it's like to be the sole woman on a board. "Women bring complementary skills to a board, such as the ability to view how a business works as a set of interdependent systems," says Irvin, who was the only woman ...
The capital market crackup: to shoot yourself in the foot is bad enough for U.S. capital markets; so why are we reloading and firing again?(AGENDA 2007)
Dec 01, 2006; ... At the turn of the 20th century, most American companies were incorporated in the state of New Jersey. Today, of course, public companies are typically chartered in Delaware. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How did New Jersey lose the valuable corporate charter business to ...
Best companies for leaders: GE eclipses P & G for the top spot in 2006.(LEADERSHIP)
Dec 01, 2006; ... Growth requires more than a good strategy these days. Everyone has a decent strategy, but how many have leaders at all levels of the organization who have the understanding, drive and skills to execute it in ways others cannot? When Peter Drucker presciently introduced the idea of ...
Where Value Hides: how do you identify and turbocharge your company's strategic market strengths?(STRATEGY)
Dec 01, 2006; ... Faced with profitable growth as a primary goal, most executives are aware that value may be hiding somewhere on the competitive landscape just waiting to be discovered and appropriated, but the challenge is identifying where that value exists. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
The truth behind the backdating brouhaha: the risks are many--but then so are your options. Here's how to size up the issue.(EXECUTIVE LIFE)
Dec 01, 2006; ... Approximately 100 companies have come under fire for the backdating of stock option grants. The resulting investigations, in turn, have led to the resignation of 30 officers--many of them CEOs, CFOs and general counsels. Notable casualties include Altera and United Health Group, as well as ...
No more Mr. Nice Guy: Trump is king when jokers run wild.(FLIP SIDE)
Dec 01, 2006; ... The time has come to say a few words about the perils of group think. A short while back, a fake documentary entitled Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was released on these shores. The film purports to chronicle the adventures of a Central ...
Business is the best NGO.(EDITORIALS)
Dec 01, 2006 ... THE RECENT PASSING of Nobel economist Milton Friedman reminds us of a great insight he had about the "schizophrenic" tendencies of business leaders. "When it comes to their own businesses, [CEOs] look a long time ahead, thinking of what the business is going to be like five to 10 years ...
Let's stop obsessing over CEO pay.(EDITORIALS)
Dec 01, 2006 ... FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES critics have tried to control large public company CEO pay through regulation, legislation and direct pressure. Nothing seems to have worked. Now that a new Democrat-controlled Congress is feeling it must flex its muscles in all sectors of the economy, we can ...