Michael Price
On Today's CEO I've been in the investment business for 25 years watching various executives. Some I follow
wherever they go. Some I avoid wherever they go. Sometimes I get involved with one and wish I
hadn't. As a mutual-fund manager, I always felt that the CEO's job is to develop the right
vision and get the right people who can execute it. Then he has got to keep an eye on them. Jack
Welch at GE has done an incredible job of that. A CEO also has to be absolutely honest. There
can be no questions about his integrity. The worst case is a guy who fools himself, who makes
mistakes and fails to realize they were mistakes. Maybe he had the wrong vision or got talked
into something by investment bankers. everyone errs. But you've got to recognize it and fix it.
A sense of urgency is critical, too. Investors want a rate of return, and the longer they have
to wait, the less attractive a stock becomes. So a CEO needs to have a fire in his gut. I do
think that in the last five years CEO's have gotten smarter and more responsive to their
investors. They are less belligerent and arrogant. This trend is very, very good. CEO's are more
open to ideas. The old attitude of big-company CEO's was "I know what's best, and no one can
tell me". That's over with.
邁克爾.普愛斯
現代CEO
我已經在投資行業做了二十五年了，我遇見過各種各樣的執行官。至今我還跟從他們其中一些人的運營方
向；而另外一些人的觀點我則不會接受。有些時候，當我跟某些執行官打交道時，我真希望我們并沒有合作過
。作為一名合股投資行業的管理人，我覺得CEO的工作應該是制定正確的發展方向，然后找到適合的能夠執行
該計劃的人選。然后，他應該對這些人的工作進行監督。通用電氣公司的CEO杰克?威爾奇先生在這方面做得相
當地成功。一名CEO還必須絕對誠實，他不應該在為人正直的方面出現任何問題。最糟糕的事情就是某個人自
欺欺人，當他犯了錯誤的時候他卻始終意識不到自己的錯誤。可能他們會有一些錯誤的觀點或者陷入投資銀行
家的圈套當中。每個人都會犯錯誤，但重要的是你必須意識到自己的錯誤并且改正它。此外，CEO必須具有一
種緊迫感。投資商們都希望有高的回報率，他們需要等待的時間越長，股本就越來越沒有吸引力了。因此，
CEO的內心需要有一種火一樣的熱情。我的確認為在最近的五年時間里，CEO為他們的投資商們做出了許多有遠
見卓識的、并且卓有成效的決策和策略。他們根本就不是挑釁性的人物，也一點兒也不狂傲。這個發展趨勢是
非常非常值得夸耀的。CEO在思想觀念上更加開放。而在過去CEO對待大公司的態度是“我知道什么是最好的，
別人不用告訴我怎么去做。”一切都變樣了。
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