CEO

“CEOs are surrounded by people telling them what they want to hear. That's their incentives, right? The reason why the VP is attacking me is because he's worried I'm going to make the VP look bad in front of the CEO, right? That's the concern. Whereas the CEO i…”

“The job of the new CEO to some extent is to be the CEO and do something different from the old CEO. Like that's definitional and the, you know, a little bit about that. Yeah, exactly. There could be hesitancy at a board meeting, et cetera, because the Old pers…”

“You want to pave the way to future opportunities. You can't wait until the opportunity is sitting in front of you for you to reach out for it, and so you have to anticipate. You know, our job as CEO is to look around corners and anticipate where will opportuni…”

“So I said to him, if you want to lay off, bring it to the board. I'll call a special board meeting. And I knew what I would ask the board to do, you know, which was not to grant the permission. That's right. But he decided to circumvent that, the CEO, you know…”

“My principle, when I was, ah, The chairman and not the CEO, ah, was, well, sometimes you have to let the CEO make his own mistakes and learn from them, you know. Ah, of course, ah, not if the whole company is going down the drain, drain, so you have to interfe…”