Listen to Steven Han's story. D was tasked with drafting a business plan to produce a portable player that will download music from the Internet using digital MP3 technology. But it was a new product with no relevant data. He went straight to company president and CEO Yun Jong Yong, who approved the plan as it was. We will make yepp the No. 1 product in the world.
Age is meaningless here.
The person who creates more value gets more authority. And gets to keep his job. I can no longer run this company as a Korean concern. A finance professor at Korea University who is on a crusade to make Korean corporates more accountable to their stakeholders, Jang led an unprecedented 13-hour questioning of Yun and other senior executives at the company's annual general meeting in March 1998. The AGM this year was practically a love-fest in comparison.