Ten Signs The CEO Is Cracking Up

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Thanks to the Sunday Times for this list which was compiled by Professor John Quelch, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. According to Quelch the ten signs that the CEO's going off the rails are when:

 

 

 

He starts collecting awards for community service

 

His face starts appearing on the covers of business magazines.

 

He entertains board members on the evening before board meetings

 

He builds a mansion, buys a vineyard and starts a vintage car collection

 

He lives a long way from the company HQ

 

He launches his own blog

 

He becomes a big fund-raiser or policy adviser for a politician

 

He funds a professorship or R&D centre in the company's name

 

He builds a lavish new corporate HQ

 

He's always out doing corporate entertaining

 

 

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