Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. GREW: And, for good or for bad and for my benefit, they hired me. GREW: Well, after running and building up that, sort of, that team, I hired my successor. Um, so on that basis, leadership style, hire brilliant people, put great minds around you.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. BRYANT: I’ll hire you, I’m going to put you at the counter. So 55% of all of my merchants, my vendors, were minority and women. So you need minorities, you need women.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. And actually, because I could see that I was going to just continue hiring people, I actually created videos as to how to put together every single aspect of the plan. Mindy: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

But I had some really good, strong women in my life. RITHOLTZ: Hey, we need a head of HR because, you know, we need to hire people. We’re not hiring them fast enough. HAMBURGER: The only attorneys they’ve ever hired is, you know, is probably to buy a house and maybe get divorced. HAMBURGER: Sure.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Yeah, I, I helped hire him. Why is the, as is the assumption just, Hey, if you make us pay more per hour, we’re gonna hire less workers. So in other words, people, companies, employers don’t wanna hire a $40,000 employee, right. Tag on top of that for healthcare. 00:15:49 [Speaker Changed] Wow.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

70-year-old women buying stress balls for, you know, therapy, you know, squeezing, you know, whatever they were selling it as, women were buying it. RITHOLTZ: Good for … LINDZON: And so QVC would call us and say, we have hundreds of complaints from old women that are going to a website to buy your product again. So you ask why.

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