首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What qualities did John Warnock and Chuck Geschek appreciate in Bruce Citizen? Bruce believed that it is important
What qualities did John Warnock and Chuck Geschek appreciate in Bruce Citizen? Bruce believed that it is important
admin
2010-08-20
85
问题
What qualities did John Warnock and Chuck Geschek appreciate in Bruce Citizen?
Bruce believed that it is important
W: Bruce Chizen is CEO of Adobe. He is offering some advice on following the founders’ footsteps.
W: You’ve said you had an unusual rise to the top at Adobe. How so?
M: I was not an engineer. I didn’t have a technical background. I had a funny east accent. Also Ididn’t have an MBA, but I think what John Wamock and Chuck Geschke did appreciate in me was my willingness to experiment, to try new ideas in the market place in the ways that they might not have.
W: When you were named CEO, there was some anxiety about the new boss. How did you bring around Wall Street and the employees?
M: Wall Street was easier than the employees because of my relationship with the financial community. Between 1998 and 2000, I had been doing most of the presentations to analysts, though John was certainly present. I had been meeting with key investors and visiting customers and employees.
So when John and Chuck officially retired, Wall Street knew that I was already running the company in many ways. But I knew some of the employees had some anxiety about it. The critics were concerned that I didn’t have John and Chuck’s technical background. Who would drive the company’s technical vision, considering that I wasn’t a technologist and that Adobe had built its foundation on technological differentiation?
So at the first employee meeting I held as CEO, I made it very clear to the employees that I couldn’t fill John and Chuck’s shoes alone. I imagined a picture of myself in front of two very large shoes, and I told the employees that I would fill one shoe, but they had to fill the other one. I was counting on them.
W: How are you doing things differently from John and Chuck?
M: Adobe is going through a transformation. We are no longer a little company. We’re a $1.2 billion company with a market cap of somewhere between $ 6 billion and $ 8 billion. And I think we can become a $ 5 billion company over the next several years. That requires a whole different way of doing business.
W: Any notable missteps along the way? Any lessons from what has happened?
M: John told me, when he was handing over the title, that the CEO’s job is very lonely. While you have the board to speak to, the board is also your boss, and you really don’t have any peers within the company. I think I was too slow to reach out and engage with other CEOs to find a peer group to learn from. Over the past year and a half, I’ve joined a CEO group. We meet quarterly under non-disclosure agreement.
The other thing I would do differently is to confront the hard organizational and people issue quickly, especially around my executive staff. Because I was promoted from within, I was sometimes too “nice” at the beginning. I didn’t want to disrupt the comfortable work environment, I allowed the present situation to persist longer than I should have. I knew that I needed to reorganize and eliminate those people who weren’t right for the positions.
W: What’s your advice to executives who are to take over as CEOs?
M: Be honest, open, and direct, and recognize that for every employee who might like what you are doing, there could be another who doesn’t and you are not going to make everyone happy most important, make sure, if your ex-CEO is still going to be on the board, to have an agreement going in so that they are going to let you do the job.
选项
A、to cope with ex-CEO.
B、to be always honest and open in managing the company.
C、to make every employee happy.
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/3FEO777K
本试题收录于:
BEC初级听力题库BEC商务英语分类
0
BEC初级听力
BEC商务英语
相关试题推荐
YouwillhearatalkgivenbyaspokesmanoftheU.S.InternationalCommunicationDepartment.Hetalksaboutanumberofprivat
Youwillhearfiveshortrecordings.Eachspeakerissayingwhatamanagermustdotoachievesuccess.Foreachrecording,decid
Whohasownedmorethan50domainnames?WhydidFederalgovernmentsanctionafewbusinessestoofficiallystartsellingnames
Lookatthenotebelow.Youwillhearacallingabouttimeofarrival.Flight:【C5】______Getinat【C6】______Thefemalehadto【
Lookatthenotebelow.Youwillhearamancallingtoconfirmtheflight.FLIGHTRESERVATIONFORMName:Den
Youwillhearashortmonologuetalkingaboutwhatlifewillbelikewhenpeoplegetolder.Foreachquestion(23-30),markonel
Lookatthenotesbelow.Youwillhearawomanleavingamessageaboutmaintainingcustomers’interest.
Youwillhearfiveshortrecordings.Fivepeoplearegivingadviceonhowtogivefeedbacktoemployees.Foreachrecording,
•YouareunabletoattendanimportantmeetinginyourdepartmentasyouwillbevisitinganInternationalTradeFair.•Wri
•Readtheextractofanarticlebelowaboutproductpromotion.•Inmostofthelines34-45thereisoneextraword.Itiseither
随机试题
天禄公司由甲、乙、丙、丁四人出资设立,甲持股25%,公司章程规定公司的经营期限为10年。到期后,公司运营不好,甲主张按章程规定解散公司.但其他股东均不同意解散。公司召开股东会讨论此事,在甲反对、其他股东均同意的情况下作出股东会决议,决定修改公司章程,延长公
安全阀是通过向系统外排放介质来防止管道或设备内介质压力超过规定数值的特殊阀门,爆破片是由爆破片和夹持器等零部件组成的非重闭式压力泄放装置,两者均为常见泄压装置。下列有关爆破片和安全阀的说法中,正确的是()。
焊接中遇到中途停顿或焊丝用完后需重新焊接时,应将原熔池焊缝金属熔化形成新的熔池后,再加焊丝,但与原焊缝不必重叠。()
正常二尖瓣血流的脉冲型频谱多普勒为何波形()
拟调查某大学学生的龋病患病情况,若进行抽样调查应采取
房地产估价之所以要遵循最高最佳利用原则,是因为在现实的房地产利用中,每个房地产拥有者都试图采取最高最佳利用方式充分发挥其房地产的潜力,以获取最大的经济利益。()
下列各项中,符合增值税纳税义务发生时间的有()。
()主要是为了改进工序作业活动的内容,使操作方法合理化,节约工时消耗,确定先进的劳动定额。
Youwakeupinthemorning,thedayisbeautifulandtheplansforthedayarewhatyouhavebeenlookingforwardtoforalong
A、Kareniskindtopeople.B、Karenreceiveslotsofgold.C、Karenmovedawayafterthinking.D、Karensentthewomangoldasagi
最新回复
(
0
)