Japan CEO Takes The Bus

With public outrage over spending behaviors of American CEOs, Barry Peterson profiles the CEO of Japan Airlines who rides the bus to work.

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[Njoyflying]

THAT is the essence of leading by setting example!

Here in the US....when was the last time that we actually sat down and had a lunch with the company CEO in the cafeteria?

Ha...i can't think of any!

[kingdavid3]

This is what I call a good leader!

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

@whoo689 The act of making money causes a dopamine release in the brain, just like snorting cocaine. Entrepreneurs constantly want more and more and more because they're basically addicted to it.

[ZrazorRozenstrauch]

@apocrisia Not CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

[apocrisia]

Stat: Every 5 of 167 people are CEOs.

[ac077626]

What bring people to the top is usually:  GREED. They cut salaries and fill up their pokets and still sleep at night.

[kqcrazii]

Good for him. Setting a role model for everybody else.

[whoo689]

Besides, the wealthy in America are pretty fucking spoiled by our tax system, to be quite honest. Only 35% federal income tax? Did they FORGET the pre-Reagan years where it was 70% (or 91% pre-JFK)? There are few decades in our HISTORY where the personal income tax has been lower.

[whoo689]

And the rich and their cronies in the OGP have the NERVE to bitch and whine constantly about "regulations" or "overtaxation"? Blow me with that nonsense. Exxonmobil is making a KILLING off these high gas prices! They have no room to complain or lobby to keep subsidies, for starters. They can afford to pay a little more in taxation, too. I mean, isn't profit "revenues MINUS costs", not just "revenues by another name"? Profit is what you have left over AFTER costs, right?

[whoo689]

We need REAL firm leaders who are loyal to the co. and don't just do every little thing that'll increase the bottom line at the expense of all else. We need folks who CARE about making the firm better and helping out workers in and of itself, not just because they have the "incentive" of getting paid a lot for it. Why isn't, say, 5 or 10 million a year ENOUGH? That's PLENTY. Much more than most workers probably will make in a lifetime.

[whoo689]

The workers sell, package, manufacture, etc. the various company operations. They make the company GO. Sure, a head of a particular division or exec can sign off on a certain idea, but he alone cannot do it all. This seems to have been forgotten by those at the top who seem to sometimes act like all workers are disposable, including the best-skilled.

I mean, if you can't do your job well as a company exec without "requiring" a huge compensation, fuck off. You're not the type we need.

[whoo689]

WORKERS make up the backbone of the company, and without them, businesses would be FUCKED. The CEOs and execs are important for the direction of the firm, no doubt, but the idea that they are the END-ALL BE-ALL and are SOO much more worthy for co. success than everyone else is ludicrous. The firm is an ORGANISM that requires all parts to be functioning well, not just the most powerful. It's like the flagellum bacteria. Japan has the right idea here.