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Ron Johnson, Marissa Mayer, and the Risks of Hiring a Celebrity CEO

By Jonathan Salem Baskin, Contributor

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American public companies have long relied on recruiting top executives in hopes they’ll replicate the success they’ve achieved in the past. Such “celebrity CEOs” have been fun for the media to cover, stock analysts to value, and employees to dish upon. They’ve also almost routinely failed, at least in recent memory.

From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2013/04/20/ron-johnson-marissa-mayer-and-the-risks-of-hiring-a-celebrity-ceo/

Thatcher Dead, Britain Dying, But Life Goes On

By James Poulos, Contributor

American conservatives are fond of quoting Margaret Thatcher with almost as much verve as they summon forth on Winston Churchill‘s behalf. Now that the Iron Lady has passed, uneasy conservatives will be caught between the two perennial modern conservative urges: celebration of the greatness that was and despair over the possibility — the likelihood! — that such greatness is a possibility now foreclosed in human life. Unfortunately, modern Britain seems to have been perfectly designed to exacerbate that debilitating sense of being so torn. …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

A Branding Dream (or Nightmare) for the New American Airlines

By Jonathan Salem Baskin, Contributor

American and US Airways have announced that they’re merging, thereby creating “a premier global carrier” (it’ll be the largest). This action, thought expected, presents the leadership of the new entity with an immense branding opportunity that could go one of two ways. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest