They say they are worried that the Citadel directors' inaction is intended to let an ineffective chief executive hang on to his job.
An ineffective chief executive may well prove disastrous as a chairman—always defending his legacy and stopping his successor changing direction.Mr Fourtou certainly did well as chief executive of Vivendi.
In circumstances in which profits and social welfare are in direct opposition, an appeal to corporate social responsibility will almost always be ineffective, because executives are unlikely to act voluntarily in the public interest and against shareholder interests.
Several former Weinstein employees told me that the company's human-resources department was utterly ineffective; one female executive described it as "a place where you went to when you didn't want anything to get done.
He cites Norway, which bans pornography that includes the depiction of sex involving violence, as a possible model.Whatever the definition, a ban would be legally dubious, technically unfeasible and ineffective, argues Smari McCarthy, executive director of the International Modern Media Institute, a lobby group.
AIG, of course, has come to symbolize some of the most glaring problems of ineffective regulation, exuberant executive compensation and risky insurance policies and market speculation.
The challenge for businesswoman is to change societal and organizational focus from them as just "females" - with all the role expectations that entails - to effective or ineffective employees or executives, where gender becomes irrelevant.
This skill is so vital that, in its absence, good leaders turn bad, good executives become ineffective, and good colleagues turn into adversaries.
Worse, it was paralyzed by two inept chief executives and an ineffective board of directors.
Real Network's announcements on Monday and Tuesday regarding its partnership with International Business Machines ibm and the acquisition of Xing are seen by Microsoft executives as an ineffective way of stealing the Redmond-based titan's thunder as it prepares to launch MS Audio 4.0 player.
