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...Jack Welch had an enormously successful career at GE, built basically on execution. We mention Dick Brown of EDS. The Colgate-Palmolive people have done a wonderful job over the last number of years. Johnson & Johnson under Ralph Larsen has had a long history of being able to execute...
Kozlowski liked to think of himself as a budding Jack Welch, but unlike Welch, he never developed a set of business practices that brought real synergy to his disparate businesses. He had little patience for GE's vaunted Six Sigma quality-control doctrine, nor did he make enough investments in information technology. And he apparently didn't do a good job of nurturing a new generation of managers: retired chairman John Fort had to return as interim CEO last week. Some analysts think that in his passion for quick deals, Kozlowski often overpaid, most notably for CIT, which may fetch...
...else, to avoid the criticism that would follow if a rookie CEO didn't work out. So we get a transient band of failed leaders like Michael Armstrong at AT&T and Joseph Nacchio, most recently at Qwest. Whenever possible, companies should promote from within, as at IBM and GE. One immediate improvement would be to index the price at which a CEO can exercise stock options so the options have value only when the stock outperforms a peer group. And as Paulson said, CEOs should be required to disgorge any profit from stock sales in the 12 months before...
...Botswana. BOTTOM LINES "A hedgehog could have crossed any major road in relative safety." Rob Maynard, Royal Automobile Club spokesman, on the absence of a rush hour during England's early-morning Nigeria match "The problem I have is not firepower, it is a shortage of targets." Nani Beccalli, GE Europe CEO, on the company's desire to buy European companies "You're worse than politicians." Tom McNally, member of Britain's House of Lords, on cable executives' evasive answers during hearings on a communications bill
TIME: Would you stay away from GE for that reason...