The cinematography, by Barry Sonnenfeld, is handsome, but in a studied and not very expressive way.
Sonnenfeld says if past recessions are any indication, some of these men will climb back later.
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"I have a urinal in all my houses it solves the classic seat-up, seat-down controversy, " says Mr. Sonnenfeld.
Thanks to director Barry Sonnenfeld, it is funny because the stars are encouraged to play it dead straight.
Two crucial questions must be asked before a chief executive is allowed a second act, says Mr Sonnenfeld.
Mr. Sonnenfeld and Ms. Ringo lived in this home full-time and have lived in East Hampton year-round since 1982.
Sonnenfeld says he thinks the board did the right thing when it dismissed Hurd, and that Whitman can make a strong chief.
Many of these were men far from young, says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale School of Management, adding that Kerkorian is 91.
The Google board should inform shareholders about the cause and likely duration of Mr. Page's condition, according to Mr. Sonnenfeld, author of several leadership books.
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Mr. Sonnenfeld says they are now selling their home and leaving the Hamptons because their kids are grown and they have decided to move to Telluride, Colo.
Director Barry Sonnenfeld, whose movies include "The Addams Family, " the "Men in Black" trilogy and "Get Shorty, " has put his roughly 6, 000-square-foot home in East Hampton, N.
People in such high-profile jobs at public companies have a "responsibility to the public" to disclose their condition because they are so "central to the strategic value of the business, " Mr. Sonnenfeld said.
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At Starbucks Mr Schultz replaced Jim Donald, and promptly changed the firm's strategy but the rapid expansion that got Starbucks into trouble was Mr Schultz's strategy as much as Mr Donald's, says Jeff Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management.
"We'll miss our friends and home in the Hamptons, but figured that by leaving, it opens up valuable tables at Nick and Toni's and the American Hotel, " jokes Mr. Sonnenfeld, referring to the East Hampton restaurant and Sag Harbor hotel, respectively.
But, as Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, author of an extensive study of the subject, points out, even successful departing bosses often try to ease the pain of re-entry into normal life by demanding to keep the trappings of their heroic stature: limousines, offices, private jets.
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Mr. Sonnenfeld emphasized the matter of choice during a lunchtime show-and-tell that included photographs of a modern 3-D camera modern in the sense of all the things it can do, but Rube Goldberg-retro in the sense of an enormous, and enormously cumbersome, rig with ancillary gizmos piled atop gizmos like some Watts Tower of digital power.
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