My first clue came at a planning meeting for the FUSION 2011 CEO-CIO Symposium last spring.
So what should you look for in yourself (or your cofounders) to measure CEO-status?
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First, don't be so quick to separate the roles of chairman and CEO--like The Walt Disney Co.
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Cash management is also a CEO-critical task, but operating cash is not capital.
The most powerful person in the videogame industry isn't a CEO--he's a plumber.
There are many tasks every small business owner must handle personally, but none is more CEO-specific than allocation of capital.
At the FUSION 2011 CEO-CIO Symposium, William Brennan , CEO at Forsythe Technologies, recounted his approach to the iPad.
Fortunately, now we have data to help us close the CEO-CMO gap.
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Hewson took the reins at Lockheed this year after a scandal that included CEO-elect Kubasik last year forced him to resign.
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The move was perfectly legal, says Rodrigo Sales, Auctionwatch's CEO--and it's also legal for him to find a way around such blunt electronic countermeasures.
"At some point if a CEO-ship should be in front of me and it's going to be a challenge, maybe I'll take it, " he says.
They evaluated the remaining 350 companies using key environmental, social, and governance performance indicators, including waste productivity, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, leadership diversity, and employee turnover.
Some of the negative reaction is based on expectations of how Mayer, as a female-CEO-with- children, should relate to offsite workers, who are largely assumed to be working mothers, too.
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What are the implications for the Times Company to have its new CEO - who needs to deal with many tough business challenges here - arriving with so much unwanted baggage?
"We will fly from Warsaw to London Stansted airport six times a week from December 15, " Air Polonia's deputy chief executive Jan Litwinski -- LOT's former CEO -- told a news conference.
At the FUSION2011 CEO-CIO Symposium in Madison early in March, I was surprised by the number of CIOs who were running key operations in the cloud, or at least what they described as the cloud.
And as more and more companies begin to transform their IT assets into engines of growth that help their companies anticipate, accelerate, and engage, CEO-level tolerance for old-fashioned CIOs will decline, then dwindle, and soon disappear.
One of my colleagues suggested that he could head a defense contractor like Lockheed, but CEO-elect Christopher Kubasik, who was set to head the company in January, just resigned after a reported improper relationship with a female employee.
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Despite uncertainty over the future defense budget and the possibility of sequestration, and after a recent scandal that led to the resignation of CEO-elect Chris Kubasik, Lockheed managed to deliver a decent fourth quarter on Thursday.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. named five new directors to the board yesterday, including three women: Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and ex-California gubernatorial candidate, Patricia Russo, ex-CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Dominique Senequier, CEO of Paris-based AXA Private Equity.
The best way to break the monopoly of CEO-minded board members with respect to board seats is not to mandate that a certain percentage of board members must be women, as has been done in Europe, but to mandate true elections for board seats.
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That was a brave wager, because the company had built itself on big deals, and has gone through a decade-long dry spell when it comes to inventing new drugs. (See this piece, Drug Drought, from 2007.) Kindler stuck with this idea, even after the biggest drug in his pipeline failed five months into his CEO-ship.
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, and Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard, prevailed in California as candidates for governor and Senate, respectively.
Individual approval ratings have varied from VeriSign (nasdaq: VRSN - news - people ) CEO Stratton Sclavos ' all-time low of 1%, to Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) CEO Steve Jobs ' all-time high of 94%.
January 12, 2005 - TiVo CEO and co-founder Mike Ramsay steps aside as CEO.
Salomon Smith Barney ex-CEO Michael Carpenter --who headed the house of Grubman--resigned from the board in October after taking a different post within Salomon.
They say the company's ex-CEO and ex-finance chief used a secret slush fund of stock options to lure new executives and reward favored employees without the knowledge of the board of directors.
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