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The Real Stuff

At the World Business Forum we ran into Herb Kelleher, our 1999 Chief Executive of the Year. Alone among the [...]

The Real Thing

Coca-Cola employee and several accomplices managed to pirate a number of confidential documents and a sample of a new product [...]

The Right Step

In addressing the approaches business may take to help regenerate urban America, we deviate only slightly from our mission to [...]

The Rising Sunshine State: Watching Florida

Texas and California are once again at opposite ends of our annual rankings by CEOs of the best and worst states in which to do business. We take a closer look at the Texas model, but an equally interesting contrast is between the golden state of California versus the sunshine state of Florida.

The Road Back

Speaker Newt Gingrich has a well-earned reputation for rhetorical flourish, which I witnessed during his recent appearance at The Economic [...]

The Top Job

What makes a CEO? Is there a pattern in terms of age, background, education, and career path? Where are future [...]

The Tradition Continues

Last July our readers’ wishes were realized when CE officially inaugurated Bill Marriott of the Marriott Corporation as 1988′s Chief [...]

The Trouble With Social Security

Demographic trends are catching up with inherent flaws in our nation’s retirement program. In about a decade, the baby-boom generation will begin to retire, forcing sharp rises in outlays that will bankrupt the system. As the day of reckoning edges closer, employees and employers alike are asking, “should we trust the government with our retirement?”

The Twin Challenge of Talent

Exceptional leaders know that their greatest contribution is to cultivate other exceptional leaders. Peter Drucker often wrote about the importance of creating leaders for “the future that has already happened.”

The Virtual Organization