Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is senior associate dean of Leadership Studies and Lester Crown Professor of Practice Management at the Yale School of Management, as well as author of The Hero’s Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire (Oxford University Press) and co-author of Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters (Harvard Business School Press).
Take heed, GOP. Your opposition will use this to utterly destroy her in negative ads should you nominate her.
I actually heard the Red-eye Radio guys (Eric and Gary) say that Fiorina looked better prepared than Trump because she said something, even if it was wrong, whereas Donald offered no details. Seriously, they actually said that.
A well-thought out piece that brings the facts to the surface.
Ah, Dr. Sonnenfeld, if only you and your colleagues had turned your fine eye for detail and your investigative sprit toward the Democratic candidate.
Could it be that uncovering background on the Democratic nominee would not advance the agenda of destroying the traditional Western way of life: Christianity, capitalism and democracy?
I probably wouldn’t spend too much time crowing about Jeffrey Sonnenfeld resume.
He has a big reputation for cronyism and his opinion isn’t trusted.
If you are a sponsor of Sonnenfeld’s CEO Summit, curiously you get winning articles written by him.
Here’s some examples:
1. In May 2014, Sonnenfeld told the Financial Times that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty was “the perfect person” to lead the company. IBM, from 2011 to 2014, was a leadership partner of his CEO Summit.
2.In February 2014, Sonnenfeld co-authored a New York Times op-ed about the unfair treatment of women CEOs — holding up Patriarch Partners CEO Lynn Tilton as a paradigm for successful female leaders. Patriarch was one of nine 2014 CEO Summit sponsors.
3. Sonnenfeld, in the same op-ed, came to the defense of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. The soft-drink and snacks maker was a CEO Summit sponsor from 2011 to 2014.
4. Sonnenfeld backed DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman and bashed activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is engaged in a much-publicized proxy battle with DuPont. Kullman received a Legend in Leadership award from Sonnenfeld in December 2013.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/15/being-friends-with-yale-prof-sonnenfeld-has-its-benefits/
Am I the only one who found her behavior at the debate to be obnoxious? She was rude, always butting in, then refusing to stop talking when asked multiple times. She acted as though it was ever so important that we all hear what she had to say at the expense of all the other candidates.
Good or bad, to a very large segement of voters she has the only qualification needed - Two "X" Chromosomes.
Anybody who can fail and walk away with a $40 million payoff must be smart on some level.
While that may be construed as a PC preference, it is not. To fail to recognize and redress the prevalence of public PC brainwashing is a fool's omission. I'm glad she's up there, and will be equally glad when she loses on her relative merits, just like any other prospective candidate and in obvious disregard of her gender.