It's clear from this volume that the visionary leadership of the researcher turned executive Mervin Kelly played a large role in Bell Labs' sense of mission and its ability to institutionalize the process of innovation so effectively.
Her smoking buddy Mike, a brilliant Marxist turned executive manager, provides her with an "education in modern finance," leading her through the labyrinths of derivatives and hedge funds and predicting that she'll soon be a patriotic capitalist.
In an online profile, at match.com, he introduced himself: an English teacher turned executive who read three newspapers a day; watched no television; liked to canoe, camp, split wood and go to the symphony; and loved Italy because it has the best food and bow ties in the world.
By mid-afternoon Friday, the head of Canadian Pacific Airlines, Grant W. G. McConachie, a veteran bush pilot turned executive, was flying East from his headquarters in Vancouver with a youthful but expert aeronautical engineer named Frank M. Francis, who was employed by the same line.
It is unclear if he will reprise the infamous scream on "Monday Night Football" on ABC this fall when he asks the trademark "Are you ready for some football?" "He just does things now on his own terms," said Tom McMahon, the deputy campaign manager turned executive director of Democracy for America.
(The stomach-churning results may be more effective than any international treaty in protecting Antarctica from the ravages of tourism; about which there was much debate, this being a middle-class expedition: among us, two dentists, a retired spy, Eminem's tour manager and a Brooklyn lawyer turned executive coach who helps people find their inner bliss).
Mr. Doctoroff's pitch turned executives who started out rolling their eyes into true believers.
The result has been to turn executives into risk-takers.
Such arrangements, she said, turn executives into an elitist class, which is not appropriate to American values.
Most incentive payments these days come in the form of share options, which if the share price rises rapidly can soon turn executives into multimillionaires.
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