Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Contingencies and roles in structuring corporate power
- Part II Small numbers at the top
- 4 Professional duos
- 5 Trios and bigger executive constellations
- 6 United careers of small numbers at the top
- Conclusion: From small numbers to corporate governance regimes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
6 - United careers of small numbers at the top
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Contingencies and roles in structuring corporate power
- Part II Small numbers at the top
- 4 Professional duos
- 5 Trios and bigger executive constellations
- 6 United careers of small numbers at the top
- Conclusion: From small numbers to corporate governance regimes
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
[I]f you are a passionate leader, intuitive and charismatic, look for a trustworthy and confident manager to counterbalance you. If you are a lover of numbers, security and rigor, try to share your career with a loony visionary.
Cubeiro, 1998For six years, we shared a job at Fleet Bank: vice president, global markets foreign exchange. One desk, one chair, one computer, one telephone, and one voice-mail account. We had – still have – one résumé. To our clients and colleagues, we were effectively one person with the strengths and ideas of two … when we look for a new job, we will look together. If one of us wants to leave our next position, the other will leave as well … For the foreseeable future, we are a package.
Cunningham and Murray, 2005, p. 125The August 2004 issue of Vanity Fair carried an article entitled “So Very Valentino,” which claimed to provide a “never-before look at the devoted, passionate ‘family’ behind one of the world's richest fashion empires” (Tyrnauer, 2004, p. 94). It was the story of the fashion designer Valentino Garavani and “his business partner, onetime boyfriend, alter ego, and closest companion” (Tyrnauer, 2004, p. 96), Giancarlo Giammetti. Countess Consuelo Crespi, the Rome-based fashion editor of American Vogue, summarized their strengths succinctly as “the brains of Giancarlo mixed with the talent and determination of Valentino” (Tyrnauer, 2004, p. 96).
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- Sharing Executive PowerRoles and Relationships at the Top, pp. 172 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005