To excel, good corporate leaders need good owners.
"We need good owners, good stadiums, good marketing, serious guys who can be serious about the sport," Garber says.
We deplore bad owners, but the laws — they're aimed at them, but they're driving out the good owners.
So I wrote down all my wishes and invented ponies whose life stories I followed: good owners and bad owners, like Black Beauty.
Like good owners, we gave her doggy chews, all contemptuously ignored in favour of the TV remote, several telephones and the iron.
And he says they would often do better to concentrate on being good owners than to struggle to manage a family firm.Maybe, but headhunters often wince when family firms turn up in search of a hired boss.
As well as being good owners with a wider focus than financial goals, the report outlines the need for them to rebuild trust in the financial system and put in place credible plans to tackle their budget deficits.
But the main reason for failure, reckons Bob Booth of AvMan, an aviation consultancy in Miami, is that governments, especially distant ones, do not make good owners for airlines.In this section Think thin and crispy Hard man Harry Old flames rekindled Is Baghdad bluffing?
And Nomura paid a pittance for the European, Asian and Middle Eastern operations of Lehman Brothers after it went bust.Unlike in previous overseas acquisition sprees, the Japanese are regarded as good owners by foreign companies, says David Marra of the Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo.
The report by consultants at PricewaterhouseCoopers does not just focus on the UK taxpayer's stakes but also on state-controlled financial entities around the world and urges governments to be "good owners" with a focus on wider social and economic objectives, not just narrow financial goals.
"We introduced them to good owners.
