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- doublefelix, on 12/27/2008, -1/+25Steve Odland, CEO of Office Depot has a worse approval rating than Bush.
- BeShirtHappy, on 12/27/2008, -2/+23Bet they're loving Glassdoor.com right now... I mean that literally for the ones ranked the nicest; and sarcastically for those ranked the naughtiest.
- rynsa, on 12/29/2008, -1/+21I have the worst boss in the world... I'm also self-employed. That ***** never springs for donuts.
- spokenkaraoke, on 12/27/2008, -2/+18i have the best boss in the world.
i'm self-employed. :) - Crazysticks, on 12/28/2008, -0/+15"Back in 1980 the average American chief executive earned forty times the average manufacturing employee. For the top tier of American CEOs, the ratio is now 475:1 and would be vastly greater if assets, not income, were taken into account. By way of comparison, the ratio in Britain is 24:1, in France 15:1, in Sweden 13:1."
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17726 - TriZz, on 12/29/2008, -0/+11Steve Jobs must be lightening up in his old age. I've never read/heard anything good about working with him through former employees.
- paker, on 12/27/2008, -1/+9My boss gave the people that work for him a NICE Christmas bonus and the day after Christmas off with pay this year.
- psykiv, on 12/29/2008, -0/+7Naughtiest
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Private company, so why not count it? - TinternAbbot, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6Interesting but not terribly meaningful. Obvious selection bias problems, as in employees of certain types of companies are more likely to participate...which is why there are so many tech CEOs in the top 10.
- Dylson, on 12/29/2008, -1/+7How the hell does Steve Jobs have a higher approval rating than the CEO of Google? That makes no sense to me at all.
- TitanX7, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Undisputed Nicest CEO Ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF6lxILnRuE&fea ... - rynsa, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5Dugg for the dream that is actually getting to meet one of these elusive 'nice' CEOs. Most of 'em are just greedy bastards. I'm sensing a pattern here.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+5It's a massive conspiracy by the Staples elite
- kjcdude, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Direct - http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/2008/12/which-ceos-h ...
- silent128, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4I love finding out about this but i would rather have a link to the site not an article about the site.
- credential101, on 12/29/2008, -0/+4Where is Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial???
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -2/+5Richard Branson is the coolest CEO. The guy just doesn't give a damn!
- solistus, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3Thanks for specifying.
- GoKings, on 12/29/2008, -0/+3It doesn't surprise me that eBay's CEO is under the worst... The decisions they've made over the years have been absolutely atrocious. It's supposed to be that in their infancy a project like that has a hard time enforcing rules and getting things organized. However, it has just gotten worse as it has grown. Top it off with sellers not being able to leave negative feedback on buyers, and you've just ***** up one of the best things on the internet.
- rynsa, on 12/29/2008, -1/+3That's pretty bad... I wonder if American corporatism has any relation to the neoconservative ideology. Hmm... I wonder...
- rynsa, on 12/29/2008, -1/+3I don't give a damn either! Does that make me cool?!
I will take any response (or lack thereof) as positive confirmation. - cquinnd, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2more drive? A CEO can come in every day and drive a company in the wrong direction just as easily (if not more easily) than the right direction.
more intelligence? Intelligence would place equal value on the long term interests of the company with short term gains or record personal profits.
more skill? The greatest skill a CEO can have is valuing the other important workers who actually fill the valuable jobs that the CEO cannot do alone.
and give jobs to everybody else? And would rather lay off everyone else to make quarterly results than take a pay cut themselves as an example of leadership during a slow economic period. - esus4, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2The greatest capitalist of the century was arguably Thomas J. Watson Jr. of IBM. He is the person that got IBM into computers. He was asked in his later years why he refused to pay himself and executives at IBM salaries comparable to the gigantic salaries collected by executives beginning in the 1980s. He referred to a conversation he had in the late 1950s with Al Williams who would eventually become the president of IBM:
''We don't want to look like pigs."
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_arc ... - zacharytelschow, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2I'm guessing they got subscriptions to the jelly of the month club ;)
- jvincent08, on 12/30/2008, -0/+2Where's Jay?
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2You are cool bruv. but u aint a CEO
- GoKings, on 12/29/2008, -1/+3Salary levels have nothing to do with the bulk of a CEO's pay... But this guy seems humble.
- liquisoft, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2I'm noticing some correlation between the approval ratings of CEO's and the success of the companies they run. This isn't true across the board, but in several cases it is. Office Depot, AOL, Motorola, and others have all been known to be having financial difficulties in one way or another. Funny how that works.
- JammoBlammo, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2Reading the comments here (and having been a past lurker on Glassdoor) prompted me to post a review on my past and current employer. Hopefully this site gains the publicity it needs to get balanced company reviews.
- inactive, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2Where were the Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers CEOs. Oh they went to work in the Bush administration, which then begs the question...
- sherrington19, on 12/29/2008, -3/+4just what i needed, another top (whatever number) list for 2008
- ExecDigital, on 04/27/2009, -0/+0I don't know, Steve Odland of Office Deport seems pretty cool to me. See what he has said: http://www.execdigital.com/Magazine.aspx?id=994&am ...
- GeezerD, on 12/29/2008, -4/+2Where have you been hiding?
- mrkmrk, on 12/29/2008, -7/+3You mean that the people who have more drive, more intelligence, more skill, and give jobs to everybody else make more money? Why, that's preposterous!
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