Notes from the The Deal’s annual corporate governance conference which took place on June 7th 2018. Full notes here.
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Nelson Peltz
- White paper and Proctor
- Proxy fight is what nobody wants
- When you come in with proxy fight with board, you come in that shareholders want you there
- Call for direct accountability
- Matrix organization the death of companies
- You got to check every box, if it does get check, it doesn’t get done
- Can’t call for a person who is in charge and hold them accountable
- Everyone has input and no one is responsible for what is going on
- P&G has 10k people in corporate
- Goal is to have 1k people in corporate
- 3 global business units who are accountable
- 20 bill businesses
- We don’t want 10k people to clog up
- Goal is to create ownership mentality in the board
- Have board think entire net worth tide in that company
- Not honoree, should be responsibility
- Use to be B2B, not paradigm B2C, more than just business, go directly to consumers
- Small companies can now attack
- Big companies want to fight disruption, knee jerk reaction
- Should embrace it
- Should disrupt themselves
- They to can have digital brands, can speak directly to consumers
- If they do that, huge balance sheet, all the other advantages once they change
- Must be able to deal with consumer differently
- Hard to deal with undisclosed liability
- Long term care
- 18 board, down to 12, 11 step when nelson stepped on
- Had undisclosed liability
- Got to ask questions when your on the board?
- Management has monopoly of information
- Beware of show and tell in board
- Must ask questions when on board
- Consumer products down
- Increase in labor
- Smaller people can’t compete
- Big guys in restaurant can withstand it
- Growing all tomatoes indoor, hydroponically grown in US and Canada in 12 locations
