The winner: Joe Montana, a third-rounder who made an entire generation of general managers look foolish.
But that's one way in which I'm trying to change as we grow this next generation of general managers.
A baseball blue-blood as a third-generation general manager, he won two World Series titles with the small-market Minnesota Twins before he turned 40.
Corporate governance at the family-run behemoths is notoriously opaque, and the looming succession to third-generation managers at both Samsung and Hyundai represents a risk to an otherwise bright outlook.
This first novel revolves around the beleaguered third-generation managers of a scrap-metal business in Columbus, Ohio: the founder's grandson and granddaughter (a Wellesley grad), who struggle to straighten out their lives under the eye of their cold, imperious father.
Bezos needs his stock as currency to do deals and retain his fickle Internet-generation managers.
Eric Gustafson, the third-generation manager of a family-run maker of lards and shortenings, says that "if Vernon were not a city we wouldn't be here," and "if we're forced to move, we're not staying in this state".
"I am eagerly looking forward to our next generation," said Andy Keane, general manager of Nvidia's professional products division, a business the company set up recently to aim at commercial high-performance computing applications like geosciences and gene splicing.
"It is our pleasure to provide tools and opportunities for the next generation," said Hidemi Tomita, General Manager of Sony's Corporate Social Responsibility Department.
"Prosecco can be the best-selling sparkling wine of the world," says Gianluca Bisol, a 21st-generation winemaker and general manager of the Bisol winery, in Valdobbiadene.
