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Pastimes : The worst CEO of 1997... Vote Here! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JEFF CHAPMAN who wrote (68)	12/4/1997 3:53:00 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 89

William D. Smithburg, former CEO of Quaker Oats. If not for the health craze, Quaker Oats would have performed even more poorly. Snapple... The company has been properly downgraded. This was an easy company to have run profitably. Excellent brand name recognition, growing market, and it flubbed big time.

To: JEFF CHAPMAN who wrote (68)	12/5/1997 4:10:00 PM
From: Gnarly	Respond to of 89

OK How about nominations for the Hall of Fame....I mean performances like Vassliades do not come without someone reaching reallllllyyy deep to try and surpass all existing standards for incompetence. Excellence in incompetence - now there's a mission statement for you. How about a vision statement....to decrease shareholder value at a rate unprecedented in the industry, WITHOUT resorting to fraud or graft. Or ...to be the "Betamax" of the remote access industry. I just find it hard to belive that they screwed up this badly without trying....were any executives shorting the stock??? Gnarly