VolvoHeretic said:
In reply to TravisTheHuman :
Some days he gains 50-55 million dollars, the other days he loses 50-55 million dollars.
It isn't about the money, It's what you can do with the money.
Build a spaceship and go to Mars. Build trucks that look like nothing else on wheels. Influence millions on social media. Advise the President.
Maybe I would take some of that money and hand it out to people who are hard up. Pay somebody's rent when they are about to get evicted. Fix somebody's car so they can get to work the next week. Buy somebody's groceries so their kids don't go hungry this week. Maybe pull a few old dogs from the shelter who are about to be euthanized and give them another few years running in a nice backyard and sleeping in my warm bedroom.
Change a few lives for the better.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
You could be Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos (although Amazon does very little manufacturing), and first thing in the morning simply decide to end world hunger.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
You get the position of the CEO but you don't get to be the person who is currently CEO, so you don't get access to their personal wealth. So under the rules of the thread if you want to do any good you'd have to set up a charity program from the corporate profits of the company you take over, similar to the clothing/gear company Patagonia.
Edit: This could also complicate my Dogecoin 2: Electric Boogaloo plan for exfiltrating wealth from the scenario. Being the interim CEO of Tesla may not give you as much cryptobro influence as being Elon Musk, but choosing just the right manufacturing CEO could still make it workable. Nvidia maybe?
If you were CEO and majority owner of a company like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, you probably can do whatever you want. If you are the CEO of Stellantis, you are an employee and probably can not even change the car lineup or the carpeting in the board room without the approval of the Board of Directors and the many investors including the Agnelli Family, the Peugeot Family, Dongfeng Motor Co. and owners of all the other entities that were mixed in with this dog's breakfast of a corporation.
j_tso
Dork
11/15/24 10:37 p.m.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
What can a person swapped CEO do in a day?
Some sort of PR that makes the stock price go up or down?
Company: Ballot reader
New feature: voice track that says one of the following every 5th ballot:
- aw hell naw
- get the berkeley out of here
- not gonna count that one
- yeah right, berkeleying commie
Facebook/instagram. I would delete the source code, burn the server farm, and salt the earth beneath it. After society gets through the withdrawal, i think we'd realize we're better off. I think I could get that done in a day.
Interesting thought experiment. In my experience all you can get done in a day at a company is massive failure based on a stupid decision by a high level executive as it ripples for months and years. That being said:
Volkswagen, lock the new microbus pricing at 25k usd and cackle as I get Ford Econoboxed out by lunchtime.
Flynlow said:
Facebook/instagram. I would delete the source code, burn the server farm, and salt the earth beneath it. After society gets through the withdrawal, i think we'd realize we're better off. I think I could get that done in a day.
And leave X/Twitter? Wow, we couldn't be more different on this.
etifosi
SuperDork
11/16/24 11:07 a.m.
Exxon/Mobil or BP/Shell. I'd publicly release what we knew and when we knew it about the long-term ramifications to the environment from the use of our products and also publish a list of the astro-turf efforts we've funded to deny, defend, and otherwise misinform the public about the dramatic environmental side-effects.
Yes, a CEO can't do much in a day, especially if the board or next CEO directly opposes this.
I'm interpreting it as "you are king of company x for a day. You can order a change and the company will continue in that direction even after you are gone"
otherwise, yeah, pointless discussion
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
Where did i say that??? There's already a CEO destroying that one, i didn't want to double up.
Also i want CL cars and forums back. I've never had an account or used twitter, so if it shut down tomorrow, I wouldnt notice.
I'd like to be CEO of Ford for one day. I'd spend the morning tracking down the person responsible for approving two-piece lug nuts. Once located, I'd then call my good buddy Elon and reserve one of his rockets. At which point I'd load The Lugnut Idiot aboard it, and fire it right into the berkeleying sun.
Guess what I just spent my whole day doing? 
confuZion3 said:
Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:
I'd like to be CEO of Ford for one day. I'd spend the morning tracking down the person responsible for approving two-piece lug nuts. Once located, I'd then call my good buddy Elon and reserve one of his rockets. At which point I'd load The Lugnut Idiot aboard it, and fire it right into the berkeleying sun.
Guess what I just spent my whole day doing?
Two-piece lugnuts? 
Ford and Chrysler have a "chrome" cap over the base lugnut. A little bit of corrosion or slightly over torquing and then between the cap and lugnut causes it to swell and then the regular 19 or 3/4 socket doesn't fit. It's why there are half size sockets now. Once the cap is gone, it's an 18mm socket.
To the original question, Holley or race winning brands to drive the insanity of private equity out of the aftermarket automotive sector.
Dunder mufflin. I dunno what I'd do. Probably prank Dwight.
TravisTheHuman said:
Yes, a CEO can't do much in a day, especially if the board or next CEO directly opposes this.
I'm interpreting it as "you are king of company x for a day. You can order a change and the company will continue in that direction even after you are gone"
otherwise, yeah, pointless discussion
Meaning the easiest thing to do is something that will immediately raise the stock price (whatever that would be) and make sure that the next day you get fired with a massive golden parachute.
Whatever you do to "fix" the company will very much be undone by the next leader, as I've seen that happen multiple times. The worse being everyone after Alan Mullaly. He set the company up making a lot of money, focusing on fixing problems, and letting the stock price do what it will do based on the success of selling profitable cars to people (one of the keys of that being an honest reduction of warranty costs, so that cheap cars don't end up costing you billions). As soon as he left, all of that has been slowly undone and back to the "shareholder value" focus that has literally not helped any company ever. You can make "adjustments" that can raise the share price in the short term, but that almost always will harm it long term- the only cuts should be ones that can be made by honest automation and piece simplification- if it just makes cuts for the sake of cutting people or making a part cheaper- that almost always has the result of harder working people cutting corners and parts not really capable of doing their job over the life of the product.
Anyway. CEO's are paid a lot by stocks, and one day of stocks would be a good amount of money- Mary Barra got ~20M in stocks in 2023, so one day of that is about $55k. Raise that as much as possible. Combine that with a normal severance package - Nassar got $23M back in the day- so another $55k for the one day. So you should clear over $100k in a day for pushing the stock price as much as possible. Maybe do a many billion dollar buyback. Cut the development and research budgets and buy stocks back.
In reply to alfadriver :
Get outta here with those "facts" and "logic", we want to daydream about righting what we feel are wrong directions. We know damn well that they'd be undone by the next quarter 
MadScientistMatt has my vote.
Toyota:
Step 1: Order that V6 and inline 6 versions of the GR Corolla engine be developed.
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit.
GameboyRMH said:
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
You could be Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos (although Amazon does very little manufacturing), and first thing in the morning simply decide to end world hunger.
So you think he just has the cash sitting around? You really don't understand how wealth at that level works do you?
