Saatchi & Saatchi’s chairman, now placed on leave by Publicis Groupe for his comments, is wrong to say the gender equality debate in marketing is “over”. Powerful white men are perpetuating inequality, even if they don’t realise it.
The Twitter founder is no Steve Jobs, and if he returns to replace Dick Costolo as CEO permanently, he’s unlikely to supply the clear strategy the social network needs to improve its lacklustre profits.
BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy Ten miles north of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters is a company called Tesla whose CEO, Elon Musk, has the vision and courage to do things really differently. It would be wrong to say he’s the new Steve Jobs – he’s set to be a lot bigger.
There were no raised eyebrows this week at the announcement that Philip Clarke will depart his role as Tesco CEO. Profit warnings, share declines and a growing sense that Clarke was unable to reverse the increasingly negative momentum of Tesco’s brand equity meant he had to go.
If you thought the tidal wave of speculation and analysis that engulfed Microsoft last month with the announcement that long-term chief executive Steve Ballmer was stepping down had ended, think again.
Sidney Toledano, president of Dior, showed in his speech last week that he’s one of those rare breed of leaders who does what so few actually do – lead.