Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.
Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.
