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Health Care - Health Care Meltdown

"To stay competitive with low-wage, low-benefits Wal-Marts moving into Southern California, Safeway and other supermarket chains earlier this year tried to persuade their unionized employees to start contributing toward their health care benefits. Paying 100 percent of workers’ health care bills, the employers argued, was just too much. The request drew a resounding “no” from the union, and the employees promptly went on strike. The strike cost the supermarkets millions of dollars in lost sales, causing them to bend and agree to insulate current employees from the rising costs of health care for the next two years...."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine May 2004

FedEx - Leader of the Pack

"For revolutionizing how business absolutely, positively gets done, Fred Smith of FedEx is the 2004 CEO of the Year..."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine

Caterpillar - Cat is Back

"An icon that once seemed headed for the dustbin, Caterpillar has made an impressive turnaround. Here's how..."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine

Michael Dell - Dell

"The notion that your business model wasn't scalable-that it could never expand beyond selling a few PCs-was one of the things that confronted you in the early days. What do you think about that now?...."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine

Sandy Weill - Citigroup

"Sandy Weill offered a sweeping view of change-and opportunity-both in the United States and abroad at the November CEO2CEO Summit. Here are excerpts of his conversation with Editor-in-Chief William J. Holstein..."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine

Fred Smith - FedEx

"What does it take to be a leader who creates a company and then rides it to become a $25 billion-a-year-company? Not many people can have all those skill sets. Even Michael Dell realized he needed to bring other people in at different stages to be co-CEOs or strong vice chairmen..."
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Bob Nardelli - The Home Depot

"You arrived in December 2000. How did you know what needed to be done, technologically speaking? How did you know that you needed to launch what is, in effect, a $2 billion fix? You’re roughly halfway through..."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine

George David - United Technologies Corp.

"UTC Chief Executive George David argues that the best companies learn how to systematically achieve momentum over the long haul. They also benefit from having chief executive officers with long tenures, which is sharply at odds with the current trend..."
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Source: Chief Executive Magazine