What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.