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Jack Welch is practically a household name, almost a GE brand unto himself. But he doesn’t do it alone. He’s fielded a formidable starting line-up and charged his team with ushering GE into the next century.

Return with us now to those corporate heroes of yesteryear. Recall their triumphs. Relive their exploits. Taste their power. And, with the vision only hindsight provides, remember how history has treated them-wondering always if it will smile on you 20 years from now.

Since taking over the top jobs at Becton Dickinson & Co. i n 1994, Clateo Castellini has been knocking off management goals with the same

When he was hired as chairman and CEO of SPX Corp. in December 1995, John Blystone knew that turning around the troubled Muskegon, MI-based producer

A guy, fresh out of Harvard and an aspiring writer, eschews joining his father’s modest publishing company, choosing to support himself instead through a series

For most of his nearly 30 years in the investment business, Stephen B. Timbers concerned himself with identifying and buying growth stocks at what he

While preparing our article on Best Boards/Worst Boards (see p. 26), Bob Yavitz and I often discussed the factors that really make boards work effectively.

When American Standard faced recession and imminent bankruptcy in 1990, Chief Executive Mano Kampouris stumbled upon a model that would ultimately save the company. Without knowing it at the time, Kampouris prefigured the re-engineering phenomenon. Now he’s pushing the envelope to apply Demand Flow to the office.

The problem isn’t that CEOs are paid too much, teat outstanding employees are pad too little. Most top performers earn hardly more than tie average, although they work much harder and create tremendous value. Tie solution? Implement a broad-based compensation system that defines and rewards outstanding performance.

With a religious revival underway in the U.S., CEOs are finding it easier to talk about spirituality. Many are using their faith to stimulate creativity, mend battered corporate cultures, and gain a competitive advantage.