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Category Archives: Executive Management Style
There’s More to Learn from Jeopardy! than Trivia
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
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate successsion, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style
Tagged Alex Trebek, corporate succession, Executive Search, Internal candidates, Jeopardy!, Mike Richards, succession planning
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For Execs Confronting Extortion Shakedowns, Few Reasons to Participate
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
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Confidential Information, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Whistleblowers
Tagged Amazon, Avenatti, CEO, CEOs, confidentiality agreements, executive contracts, extortion, Joe Ahmad, Nike
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NFL’s Goodell Faces Leadership Challenge in Latest Patriots Discipline Probe
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
Posted in CEOs, Criminal Prosecutions, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Legal, Sports contracts
Tagged CEO, executive, New England Patriots, NFL, NLF executives, Robert Kraft, Roger Goodell
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For Politicians and Business Leaders, Dusty Yearbooks Hide Ticking Time Bomb
A cascade of yearbook scandals and confessions of disreputable behavior is sending quakes through Virginia political circles and beyond after decades-old yearbooks surfaced with references to racial slurs, images of students in blackface and other behavior unbecoming of those in … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Criminal Background Checks, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Legal, Social Media
Tagged background checks, CEO, CEOs, executive, executive contracts, executive employment, Joe Ahmad, Social Media
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#MeToo Zeitgeist Sends Quakes Through C-Suites
CEOs from three big U.S. chipmakers made unexpected career exits for improper behavior in the last two months alone, some on the job barely long enough to get their new business cards. Most recently and perhaps most surprising, Texas Instruments’ … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Workplace Romances
Tagged CEO, CEOs, executive, executive compensation, executive contracts, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, litigation, workplace romance
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Dating App Execs Make Failed Tinder-Bumble Merger Personal
A nasty court fight unfolding between Texas-based dating apps Tinder and Bumble has all of the elements of a soap opera drama – romance, unfaithfulness, intrigue and, of course, revenge. The mess began just four years ago with a bitter … Continue reading
Posted in Complaints Against Executives, Confidential Information, Covenants Not to Compete, Executive Management Style, Social Media, Trade Secrets, Workplace Romances
Tagged Bumble, covenant not to compete, employment, executive contracts, Joe Ahmad, Joseph Ahmad, Tinder, workplace romance
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Two-Plane Habit: GE Exec’s Travel Latest Example of Wasteful Corporate Culture
GE shareholders and much of the business world were surprised to learn about the wasteful business travel practices of recently retired CEO Jeff Immelt. The WSJ reported recently that for much of his tenure at GE, Immelt traveled in a … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Executive Management Style, Fiduciary Duty
Tagged CEO, CEOs, executive, executive compensation, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, Joseph Ahmad, litigation
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On the Court or in the C-Suite, Leaders Embrace Win-at-All-Cost Drive at Their Own Peril
The NCAA basketball kickback scandal is just getting started and it’s already bagged a big one – Louisville’s Rick Pitino, who was forced to resign after details of the wide-ranging probe were unveiled. Expect many more heads to roll as … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Criminal Prosecutions, Executive Management Style, Sports contracts
Tagged CEO, CEOs, change of control agreements, executive, executive compensation, executive contracts, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, Joseph Ahmad, litigation, NLF executives
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Study Finds Public Losing Patience When CEOs Act Out
Add Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, Amazon’s entertainment chief Roy Price and KB Home’s Jeffrey Mezger to the growing list of executives making headlines for the wrong reasons. One of the most powerful producers in Hollywood, Weinstein was forced out after … Continue reading
Posted in CEOs, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate culture, Executive Compensation, Executive contracts, Executive Management Style, Legal, Litigation
Tagged CEO, CEOs, executive, executive compensation, executive contracts, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, litigation, non-compete agreements
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Uber Leadership Vacuum Exposes Strings Attached to Startup Financing
The executive leadership vacuum at Uber and a series of PR missteps and management blunders is exposing the contentious push-pull dynamic between private equity and venture capital investors and startups that usually plays out behind the scenes and rarely makes … Continue reading
Posted in Business Continuity, CEOs, Change of Control Agreements, Complaints Against Executives, Corporate successsion, Executive Management Style, Legal
Tagged CEO, CEOs, change of control agreements, confidentiality agreements, covenant not to compete, employment, executive, executive compensation, executive employment, executive employment lawyer, executives, Joe Ahmad, non-compete agreements, trade secret
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