If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.