Category Archives: Executive contracts

C Suite Occupants Should Know They Are Always in the Spotlight, Always 

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Joe Ahmad

The scrutiny and fallout from the statements made by the Campbell’s Soup executive should not be a shocking surprise to anyone in a C-Suite position. When you are at the top of a corporate ladder, your words and your actions … Continue reading →

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Execs Can Be Fired for Off the Clock Speech or Behaviors 

Posted on March 18, 2025 by Joe Ahmad

C-Suite executives need to know that they represent the company even when they are off the clock. The recent jettisoning of Kroger’s chief for activities away from work is a sobering reminder.  Personal conduct away from the office, even if … Continue reading →

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Boeing CEO resigns – the top must drop in crises like these 

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Joe Ahmad

Davd Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, announced he is resigning from the troubled airlines at the end of the year. This is inevitable and the right thing to do. Just like in pro sports, an organization with major problems needs to … Continue reading →

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Panel of Global Employment Lawyers Agrees on One Thing: U.S. Noncompete Laws Create Unique Challenges

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Joe Ahmad

The state-by-state patchwork of noncompete laws is difficult enough for U.S.-based businesses, let alone employers with a cross-border presence. I had the pleasure of exploring this topic with a panel of U.S. and UK-based employment lawyers as part to the … Continue reading →

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There’s More to Learn from Jeopardy! than Trivia

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Joe Ahmad

Q: This household-name company allowed an insider to lead a high-profile executive search only to end up hiring himself for the job. It then failed to perform basic vetting that might have uncovered the new guy’s embarrassing history of insensitive … Continue reading →

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When it Comes to Lawyers and Allegiances, Execs Should Look Out for No. 1

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Joe Ahmad

Embattled former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes learned an inconvenient truth when it comes to allegiances between outside law firms, their corporate clients and individuals on the executive team. In pretrial wrangling before the August 31 start of her federal criminal … Continue reading →

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Former Astros GM Demands Trial Over his Sign-Stealing Termination, but Quiet Arbitration Settlement May be Unavoidable

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Joe Ahmad

Former Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow is not fading quietly into the footnotes of baseball’s hall of shame. Still unemployed after his termination by the Astros following Major League Baseball’s investigation of the dark arts employed during the team’s World … Continue reading →

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Harassment Skeletons in McDonald’s Closet Hasten CEO Steve Easterbrook Downfall 

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Joe Ahmad

Even by today’s standards of board oversight in the #MeToo era, the speed of McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook’s fall was breathtaking. In just four short years at the helm, Easterbrook was credited with nearly doubling the company’s share price and … Continue reading →

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For Execs Confronting Extortion Shakedowns, Few Reasons to Participate

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Joe Ahmad

A juicy corporate scandal has a unique ability to wipe away billions from a corporation’s market cap with frightening speed, so it’s no wonder that executives are prone to quake when faced with the prospect of responding to the threat … Continue reading →

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NFL’s Goodell Faces Leadership Challenge in Latest Patriots Discipline Probe

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Joe Ahmad

The sports metaphors are overflowing when it comes to the challenge that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell faces with the prospect of investigating and meting out appropriate punishment for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Let’s just say this: Welcome to … Continue reading →

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