Take the Reckless Path: Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters
Bill Winters planned to become a diplomat. Instead, a job at J.P. Morgan led him into banking and eventually to a pivotal early-career decision: move into the emerging derivatives business despite kno...
15 Sep 40min
Face the Music: Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci’s career has included high-profile successes and setbacks. In this episode of “Executive Decisions,” the SkyBridge Capital founder reflects on leaving Goldman Sachs to build his own...
1 Sep 43min
Run Toward the Hard Problems: Commerzbank CEO Bettina Orlopp
Bettina Orlopp took over as CEO of Commerzbank as the German lender was pushing ahead with a multiyear turnaround — and as UniCredit was building a stake that raised the pressure on the bank's leaders...
18 Aug 34min
Go Where You’ll Learn More: Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker
Steve Hasker never followed a formal career plan. Instead, the Thomson Reuters CEO says his biggest decisions were guided by one question: Would he learn more by saying yes than by staying where he wa...
4 Aug 33min
Success Isn’t the Finish Line: DSM-Firmenich CEO Dimitri de Vreeze
After more than three decades at science-based firm DSM, Dimitri de Vreeze faced what he calls the hardest decision of his career: selling the materials business where he had grown up professionally. ...
21 Jul 39min
Say Yes Before You're Ready: Capital Group CEO Mike Gitlin
Mike Gitlin never set out with a master plan to become CEO. Instead, his career has been shaped by a series of decisions to embrace opportunities that pushed him outside his comfort zone. In this epis...
7 Jul 35min
Choose Impact Over Ambition: Novonesis CEO Ester Baiget
After 25 years at Dow, Ester Baiget left a business she loved to take on the top job at Novozymes — now Novonesis. It was not a move driven by ego, or a lifelong plan to become CEO. Baiget says she di...
23 Jun 30min
Leave Without a Plan: BNY CEO Robin Vince
After 26 years at Goldman Sachs, Robin Vince made a decision few senior Wall Street executives would make: he walked away without another job lined up. At 48, he chose to take what he called a “gap ye...
9 Jun 35min
