A wise man once told me if you want to be successful you should model someone who is already successful. With that being said I thought it would be a good idea to post the most productive CEOs in America according to Inc; check it out!
In a country whose citizens work longer and get more done than those anywhere else, no one is more productive than entrepreneurs. They have unparalleled freedom to work the way they want, and many create truly personal productivity systems to lash their to-do (and do and do and do) lists into submission. Like the companies themselves, those systems reflect the CEOs’ values, goals, and leadership styles. To get a look inside the minds of the superefficient, Inc. interviewed successful entrepreneurs in various industries around the country.
The Chief Recruiter: Kevin P. Ryan, AlleyCorp: Ryan’s encore to DoubleClick—the ad-serving behemoth he sold for $1.1 billion to private equity firm Hellman&Friedman in 2005—is AlleyCorp, a variety pack of Internet start-ups he founded in New York City.
The Engager: Seth Priebatsch, SCVNGR: CEO of SCVNGR, a Boston-based start-up that helps organizations engage people through location-based smartphone games.
The Space Maker: Scott Lang of Silver Spring Networks: CEO of Silver Spring Networks, a developer of smart energy grids, based in Redwood City, California.
The Alphebetizer: Barbara Corcoran, Barbara Corcoran Inc.: Corcoran made her mark building one of New York’s largest real estate companies. Today, she is a panelist on the ABC program Shark Tank and runs a much smaller firm that works with the start-ups she chooses to invest in on that show.
The Gracious Host: Danny Meyer, Union Square Hospitality Group: CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which owns 13 New York city restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern and Eleven Madison Park.
The Modern Homemaker: Rocio Romer: Rocio Romero founded her namesake firm which manufactures prefab modern homes.
The Maloof brothers discuss how they had to show what they were made of when their father passed and they had to step in and take over the family business; and take over they did. They are making hundreds of millions with their brand spanning sports, real estate, and entertainment.
Many of us drink the products in which this woman is in charge of making leading brands world wide. In this interview Pepsi Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi tells WSJ’s Nik Deogan what life is like as a famous executive. She also discusses what she sees for her future. Click on the link below to check it out.
When all else fails Tiger still has Nike in his corner. Nike chairman and co. founder Phil Knight says they are remaining with Tiger. Knight recently did an interview withsportsbusinessjournal to discuss Nike’s support of Tiger and the business of endorsements, Check it Out:
How would you characterize the state of athlete endorsements right now? Knight: It’s a market like other things and the market like other markets has gone down. When the economy comes back up, they’ll go back up.
When? Knight: You tell me when the economy is going to get better and I’ll tell you right about that same time.
You look at someone like Tiger Woods and this episode of infidelity. Does this change the concept of building brands around athletes? Knight: Not for us. It’s part of the game.
Does a company like Nike or another company run a risk in building brands around athletes?
Portfolio.com talked to film executives who are helping reshape Hollywood. Because of new technology and the rapid pace in which movies can be delivered, pirated, or easily emulated world wide Hollywood is being force to change the way is being done. From the visionary producer of Juno, who’s breaking all the indie rules, to the audacious new head of Marvel Studios, who’s determined to own the summer season Portfolio.com interview 5 executives that are on the frontline of changing film. Check it out:
1 of 5 interviews: J.J. Abrams: The Creator Title: Chairman, Bad Robot Notable projects: TV series Alias, Felicity, and Lost, co-creator and producer; films Mission: Impossible III, director, and Cloverfield, producer Years in business: 18
J.J. Abrams has long been known as Hollywood’s boy wonder, the storytelling wizard behind the hit television series Alias, Felicity, and Lost. But the surprise success of his production company’s first major film,Cloverfield, has marked the wunderkind’s arrival as a significant Hollywood heavyweight, with talk of “the next Steven Spielberg” and “the next Dreamworks” being bandied about.
“We have big dreams, and we have some pretty cool things in the works,” Abrams says. “People say I’m going to start my own Imagine or Dreamworks, but it’s always strange to me talking about a company in that way, modeling it after other companies.” His current project is a new Star Trek movie, which Bad Robot is producing for Paramount and for which Abrams is director and producer.
Abrams proved his big-screen mettle directing Tom Cruise in the 2006 film Mission: Impossible III, which grossed $395 million worldwide; and while the success of that film might have…. Read More…
Who says that actors, rappers, ball players get to have all the fun? The truth is that some of the biggest rock stars are in the business world; and we like to call them A-List Executives. A true A-List Executive of the business world is Larry Ellison.
“Larry” Ellison is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, the World’s largest business software company. During the 1970s, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named “Oracle”. He later founded Oracle in 1977, putting up a mere $2000 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database.
He is currently listed on the Forbes list of billionaires as the fourth richest person in the world (as of March 11, 2009). Ellison is the third richest American, with an estimated net worth of $22.5 billion. Ellison owns 22.59% of Oracle Corporation; his shares are worth between 20 and 25 billion dollars.
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Bill Gates talks on the idea of the PC before he started Microsoft, going “on leave” from school and taking Paul Allen with him to start their little company.
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