Keeping CEOs and Chairmen Apart

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SEC seeks independent fund board
chairmen

SEC seeks independent fund board
chairmen 06/23/2004 02:21 PM

SEC Seeks Independent Fund Board
Chairmen (AP)

SEC Seeks Independent Fund Board
Chairmen (AP) 06/23/2004 12:23 PM
AP - Addressing an industry scandal, a deeply divided Securities and Exchange Commission decreed on Wednesday that mutual fund boards must have chairmen who are independent from the companies managing the funds.

From keeping threats out to keeping data
in

From keeping threats out to keeping data
in 06/18/2004 05:29 PM
Qualys scans networks for holes in their defenses. Now it's looking to help companies comply with law by stopping leaks.

100 Conversations with 100 CEOs

100 Conversations with 100 CEOs 05/17/2004 01:22 PM
This week Red Herring is hosting 100 Conversations with 100 CEOs from the Red Herring 100 on 100 Socialtext Weblogs -- an unprecedented opportunity for direct conversation with leading private companies. Socialtext is facilitating an Eventspace for Red Herring...

CEOs Still Raking It In

CEOs Still Raking It In 04/19/2004 09:38 AM
Are CEOs really 301 times more valuable than rank-and-file employees?

Privacy: What CEOs Need to Know

Privacy: What CEOs Need to Know 04/13/2004 01:58 AM
Business Week Apr 13 2004 6:16AM GMT

CEOs search themselves

CEOs search themselves 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 1:23PM GMT

Offshoring pays...CEOs

Offshoring pays...CEOs 08/31/2004 03:08 PM
Study finds that CEOs at 50 leaders in sending U.S. jobs overseas got a 46 percent raise. CEOs in general got 9 percent.

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick?

Whose Busienss Is It When CEOs Get Sick? 08/09/2004 08:23 PM
"You don't make a disclosure every time someone gets a gallbladder surgery. But cancer is a highly charged illness in our society." By Benjamin Pimentel, MacNewsWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

For CEOs, offshoring pays

For CEOs, offshoring pays 08/31/2004 05:07 PM
U.S. companies that send the most jobs overseas handsomely reward their CEOs, a new study says.

CEOs to Convene in Redmond

CEOs to Convene in Redmond 05/18/2004 08:53 AM
Chairman Bill Gates will address 100+ of his closest CEO pals this week at the company's eighth annual CEO Summit.

Some CEOs surf Web to see how they're
being portrayed

Some CEOs surf Web to see how they're
being portrayed 12/28/2004 02:59 AM
USA Today Dec 28 2004 6:51AM GMT

Timeline: Hewlett-Packard CEOs

Timeline: Hewlett-Packard CEOs 03/30/2005 04:53 PM
Hewlett-Packard CEOs at-a-glance

CEOs confident in continued growth

CEOs confident in continued growth 03/29/2005 02:20 PM
Chief executive officers of the fastest-growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada are confident that their companies will continue to expand, according to a Deloitte & Touch LLP survey.

CEOs Sort Of Discover Ego Surfing

CEOs Sort Of Discover Ego Surfing 12/28/2004 05:52 AM
Do CEOs of major companies sit down at their computer, call up Google and do a little ego surfing? Of course they do... but they mostly seem unwilling to tell USA Today about it (probably because they decided to call it the especially corny "CEgO surfing"), meaning that USA Today had to do it for them. Basically, they went around and looked up the names of various CEOs to see what they would see, if they did do the searches themselves. There is, of course, a mixture of good and bad -- but the article recommends that CEOs spend a bit of time every once in a while to check out what their names reveal. The article notes that Ford's CEO refuses to ego surf, claiming it's "too depressing," which makes you wonder how he would know that... unless he ego surfed.

Some CEOs surf Web to see how they're
being portrayed (USATODAY.com)

Some CEOs surf Web to see how they're
being portrayed (USATODAY.com) 12/28/2004 07:22 AM
USATODAY.com - The first thing Pete's Wicked Ale founder Pete Slosberg does when he gets to work is to type his own name into the Google Internet search engine to see if anything is being said about him or his new company, Cocoa Pete's Chocolate Adventures.

Gates Fetes America's Top CEOs

Gates Fetes America's Top CEOs 05/21/2004 05:30 AM
In his annual schmoozefest with top American CEOs, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says technology still has a long way to go in improving productivity. The CEOs politely listen, then go about networking. Cydney Gillis reports from Seattle.

CEOs urged to take control of
cybersecurity

CEOs urged to take control of
cybersecurity 04/12/2004 04:52 PM
An industry task force says CEOs and boards of directors need to take responsibility for the security of their companies' computer networks if protection of the U.S. critical infrastructure is to improve.

Report: CEOs Stagnant on Security

Report: CEOs Stagnant on Security 09/23/2004 05:42 PM
Internet News Sep 23 2004 10:19PM GMT

Survey: Top CEOs bullish on the future

Survey: Top CEOs bullish on the future 04/01/2005 08:12 PM
ZDNet Apr 1 2005 11:04PM GMT

Companies Change the Way CEOs Are Paid
(AP)

Companies Change the Way CEOs Are Paid
(AP) 05/01/2004 09:31 PM
AP - Last year, Steve Jobs received a pay package worth nearly $75 million. But the Apple Computer CEO's pay had a catch — all but $1 was in stock that he can't touch until 2006. There's been a big shift in the way America's top executives are being paid, as once-ubiquitous stock options are replaced by restricted stock and other forms of pay.

CEOs See Recession Spilling into 2006

CEOs See Recession Spilling into 2006 12/19/2004 03:00 PM

CEOs Fail Candor Test

CEOs Fail Candor Test 07/21/2004 10:51 AM
Companies with CEOs who are up front with shareholders may outperform others.

Oracle, PeopleSoft CEOs File Depositions

Oracle, PeopleSoft CEOs File Depositions 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
Internet News May 21 2004 11:06PM GMT

Bay Area CEOs grow more confident of
recovery

Bay Area CEOs grow more confident of
recovery 11/11/2003 12:52 PM
San Jose Mercury News Nov 11 2003 11:29AM ET

Industry CEOs On PSP's Present And
Future

Industry CEOs On PSP's Present And
Future 06/11/2004 10:34 PM
ZDNet Jun 12 2004 2:07AM GMT

CEOs urged to rethink corporate approach
to IT

CEOs urged to rethink corporate approach
to IT 06/17/2004 11:26 AM
LONDON -- If chief executive officers (CEOs) don't want to be wiped out by their competitors, they not only have to invest in information technology but they must also rethink how to deploy IT within their companies, a high profile panel of IT executives told attendees of the Forbes CEO forum here on Thursday.

Report Finds CEOs Stagnant on Security

Report Finds CEOs Stagnant on Security 09/24/2004 05:34 PM
Internet News Sep 24 2004 8:56PM GMT

SBC, Verizon CEOs Deny Interfering with
Municipalities (Except When They Do)

SBC, Verizon CEOs Deny Interfering with
Municipalities (Except When They Do) 03/19/2005 02:24 AM

Karl Bode over at Broadband Reports reproduces a piece of Senate transcript featuring Verizon and SBC's CEOs: The two CEOs deny that they're interfering with municipalities and that they can't stop anyone from anything. Except they admit that they are lobbying and that municipalities are unfair competitors because, SBC's CEO Whitacre says, municipalities makes laws, charge franchise fees, and so forth--except that that only applies to cable and telecom, while broadband is generally unregulated and broadband is what is largely being fought.

There's this misleading exchange, too:

Kohl: In Pennsylvania, the law was adopted at the behest of [Verizon]’s lobbying. Is that correct?

Seidenberg: But it didn’t prohibit the municipality from providing the service. It gave us a chance to jawbone about it, but it didn’t prohibit it from doing it.

Of course, that's a lie or Seidenberg is a severely uninformed head of his own firm. The law absolutely forbids Philadelphia's network except that as part of a compromise by the governor's office before Rendell signed the bill into law Verizon provided a waiver that's allowed under the law. Verizon was absolutely not required to provide that waiver once the bill was signed and certainly would have denied it had the cry not been raised.

Remember: Pennsylvania's law puts total control of a town or city's residents decision to build or farm out a broadband, telecom, or cable network entirely in the hands of incumbent operators who get to veto it. An extra-legislative, extra-suffragist process is created that denies self-determination and hands it over to non-people: corporations.

Verizon's CEO also maintains that lobbying against municipal services isn't a "programmable activity"--I think he means programmatic--and they only go after egregious situations. Which is a complete falsehood unless he is, once again, utterly uninformed about his company's lobbying efforts.

Seidenberg also claims that municipalities can't build networks that work:

"We would also make the point that in all these places where municipalities want to get into this, with all due respect, they don’t do a very good job either. Which then impacts us because the cities usually come back to us and find a reason that we need to spend money to fix the things that have occurred."

Great. Now are you going to cite a list of cities provided by institutes that are paid for by your company indirectly through Issue Dynamics, and that list contains the misrepresentations of municipal operation that we've been talking about for weeks here? You can get back to us on that one with concrete examples of what you're saying that are provably true. I want to see them. I haven't seen a single one yet that's turned out to be a municipal failure, but I'm sure there must be at least one out there.

It would be even funnier if Verizon hadn't not built promised networks while accepting money to build them. I guess it's easier not to fail when you take the money and don't build the network.

Read the comments that follow Bode's transcript expert for more golden nuggets of first-hand detail, too.

CEOs speak frankly at CTIA roundtable

CEOs speak frankly at CTIA roundtable 03/26/2005 05:41 AM
Nextel's Tim Donahue, Cingular's Stan Sigman and T-Mobile's Robert Dotson on industry consolidation and more

Handicapping the performances of Silicon
Valley CEOs

Handicapping the performances of Silicon
Valley CEOs 09/25/2004 07:57 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 25 2004 11:11AM GMT

Mac game company CEOs discuss piracy

Mac game company CEOs discuss piracy 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
MacCentral recently spoke with CEOs from three leading Mac game publishers to find out how software piracy impacts their business. MacSoft parent company Destineer Studios' President Peter Tamte, Aspyr Media President Michael Rogers and MacPlay President Mark Cottam all participated in this recent roundtable discussion, refuting the most common justifications pirates use point by point.

Smart mobs beat dumb CEOs

Smart mobs beat dumb CEOs 06/02/2004 07:19 AM
James Surowiecki's new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," argues that diverse groups predict the future better than solo prima donnas.

How Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs

How Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs 06/02/2004 02:41 AM
Both the wisdom and stupidity of crowds is a fascinating subject. I once took an entire course that focused on the problems of "groupthink," which is more commonly referred to as the "echo chamber" these days. However, at the same time, disparate groups of people, all making decisions (say, in a market) can lead to some very intelligent solutions. Salon is now reviewing a book called < i>The Wisdom of Crowds, which is obviously a play on the old favorite, < i>Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds. However, I think that the title to Salon's article gets it wrong. They call it: Sm art Mobs Beat Dumb CEOs, when what the book is really talking about is that Dumb Mobs Beat Smart CEOs. That's the real point to drive home. The power of well organized markets that present information (where the errors cancel out and the real info remains) is a testament to the power of "dumb" crowds. They're not being intelligent - but it's the collective actions that reveal the pieces of intelligence. That network of supposedly "dumb" devices at the ends, is likely to beat out the centralized "smart" CEO in the middle. In fact, the book supposedly discusses companies that are experimenting with such distributed decision making processes, where the decisions of many can better forecast where the company is going than the top-down view of the CEO. Of course, if this book catches on, expect a number of companies to try to implement such bottom-up decision making in a way that misses the point and does more damage than harm (followed by the inevitable anecdotal evidence of why such things will never work) such as making everyone "vote" on certain pointless decisions that will just waste time.

Tech CEOs Say Artificial Barrier Are Bad
(Unless They're Protecting Us)

Tech CEOs Say Artificial Barrier Are Bad
(Unless They're Protecting Us) 06/17/2004 01:14 PM
This won't come as much of a surprise of course, but it's a bit amusing to notice the internal inconsistencies in the BSA's tech policy forum in Congress this week. The BSA, which like the RIAA and MPAA, has no problem ignoring more nuanced discussions on important topics if it thinks they will cloud the point they're making -- even if that point is questionable. The latest is that they sent a bunch of big name tech CEOs to go talk to some senators about artifi cial barriers are bad (unless they're talking about artificial barriers that protect BSA companies). While the CEOs and the BSA will likely insist that's not the case at all, a quick look at their two main issues proves it's true. First, the group pointed out why protectionist trade policies are bad, and talked about how offshoring was helping to boost the US economy. In other words: "artificial barriers are bad" because they don't let the market do what it needs to do. They then immediately switched course to talk about how the government needs to step up their efforts to stop intellectual property violations. Intellectual property laws, of course, are "artificial barriers" as well. They're just government created barriers on the use of information. However, for BSA members, these artificial barriers will never be strong enough, as they went on and on about how they need the government to be stronger about enforcing these barriers. In fact, they specifically warn that no changes are needed in the dreadful DMCA law. That statement actually came from Adobe's CEO who once used the DMCA to keep a man in jail for months for writing software that was perfectly legal.

Foolish CEOs flunk security test

Foolish CEOs flunk security test 11/05/2003 03:36 PM
ZDNet Nov 5 2003 3:19PM ET

Phones Need Simplicity Before Cool
Stuff, CEOs Say (Reuters)

Phones Need Simplicity Before Cool
Stuff, CEOs Say (Reuters) 03/17/2005 04:07 AM
Reuters - Mobile telephone services need to be far less confusing to consumers, the heads of top U.S. wireless operators said on Wednesday, even as they talked up complex features such as Web surfing or video on phones.

Buy my digital nervous systems, Gates
tells CEOs

Buy my digital nervous systems, Gates
tells CEOs 05/20/2004 05:36 AM
It was five years ago today... 20 May 1999

Mac game company CEOs discuss piracy
(MacCentral)

Mac game company CEOs discuss piracy
(MacCentral) 01/26/2004 10:15 AM
MacCentral - MacCentral recently spoke with CEOs from three leading Mac game publishers to find out how software piracy impacts their business. MacSoft parent company Destineer Studios' President Peter Tamte, Aspyr Media President Michael Rogers and MacPlay President Mark Cottam all participated in this recent roundtable discussion, refuting the most common justifications pirates use point by point.
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