So AK joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a Class B director not too long ago & now Grumman's BoD. He's clearly looking to make sure he has some place to land after he steps down as CEO.
https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/arvind-krishna-joins-northrop-grumman-board-of-directors
There’s really nothing to do at IBM. The sinking ship is on its way down, time to find another ship.
Pleasure? He used the word pleasure. Tell that to any middle class family. He’s sick. Not all of us have a multi-million dollar cushion to sit our lazy as--s on during a recession.
What a piece of work.
Regarding Arvind's comment about 'You should live every day in the pleasure of getting fired." In a twisted way I kind of see what he means. Yes, we should always be ready. By ready I mean, have LinkedIn, Resume, your skills set, your network all taken care of and updated on a regular basis.
I get the sense that Arvind never has to worry where and how he's going to pay the phone bill, his rent, or where is food is going to come. Get real.
AK has a lot of spare time to join and participate on BoDs of other entities. Would that he spent as much time and effort being CEO of the company for which he is CEO. . .
Yeah, let's fire AK... the guy is a useless bully.
[Entire Fortune article referenced in @1dis+1jOyuG6P quoted below].
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s best career advice is to live every day ready to be fired --
“You should live every day in the pleasure of getting fired…That is so freeing, and so deep…It’s definitional for me. If it’s not aligned to how I want to do things, I will leave go someplace else. I have pretty good confidence that you can get kind of role, some job, somewhere. Will it be exactly the same? Probably not. But if you got to some level of fulfillment where you are, you can probably do it again. So you should never be in fear of taking one or two steps back, because if you are, then you are a hostage.”
Krishna’s comments came at the end of a six-week “learning sprint,” in which the Connect Fellows, who are part of a learning community of senior executives potentially headed for the C-suite, explored their own purpose as well as their company’s purpose as a means of building leadership skills. You can learn more about the program here.
Separately, the Yale School of Management this morning is announcing a new program on “Stakeholder Innovation and Management”—an effort to disseminate best practices from the new era of stakeholder capitalism. Former IBM Chief Brand Officer Jon Iwata is one of the founders of the program, which he says is a response to the need of leaders to develop “new skills, capabilities and management systems” for a new era. I wouldn’t be surprised if other business schools follow suit.
@1dis+1jOyuG6P --
I wonder if AK follows his own advice?
And hopefully the BoD reads this forum.
He even talked about being fired is a good thing for your career recently.
https://fortune.com/2022/11/17/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishnas-best-career-advice-is-to-live-every-day-ready-to-be-fired/