Former General Counsel Tom Chapple, who retired in 2006 with an especially rich send-off, has launched a consulting firm in Rochester, N.Y., aimed at helping "high-potential employees and businesses achieve success."
Chapple Leadership Group programs will focus on "building practical skills such as time management and communication, as well as topics such as effective management and leadership techniques,'' according to a Daily Record law journal story yesterday.
Chapple retired from the company in April 2006, with an estimated $3.1 million pension and final deferred compensation of $1.8 million, company documents show. But the board of directors granted him an extra payment: $1.1 million, of which $400,000 was in consideration of a non-compete covenant scheduled to run until May 1, 2007, according to the 2007 proxy report to shareholders. Those amounts total $6 million.
Friday, October 08, 2010
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To paraphrase an old saying, "Them's who can, do. Them's who can't become consultants."
ReplyDeleteFishy.
ReplyDeleteWonder if Gannett is a client?
Hardly really a company yet... http://www.chapplegroup.com/
Here, from LinkedIn...
"I do one thing. I coach really terrific people in big new jobs who want to make damned sure they succeed and succeed quickly.
If you are such a person, or have one working for you, call me to discuss how I do it.
Thomas Chapple’s Specialties:
Strategic Thinking; Productivity and Time Management; Team Building and Motivation; Executive Presentation skills"
This after a failed restaurant venture in Rochester.
Loved this irony...
"2008-07-17 13:38:51 A common problem that haunts public comment sites the world over is that they attract people with an axe to grind. In the case of the previous two messages, it is probably a commercial/competitive axe.
Though there is no way to know for sure the validity of any comment, we trust the readers of rocwiki to use their common sense when evaluating entries by so-called customers. A twist on the old saying, when something sounds too bad to be true, it probably isn’t true. Come in and try us for yourselves. I think you’ll be positively impressed.
Tom Chapple
Owner
Tasteology"
Three months later, his restaurant closed. Now, he's a consultant. Maybe he'll have an easier time tempering unsatisfied customers.
Hey, don't knock it. The guy can develop a program that's 180-degrees from Gannett's management style and have himself a real winner!
ReplyDeleteThis is the same genius who -- in announcing that extended health bennies would be cut off to any employee who was younger than 50 (like him and all the other executive decision-makers) -- wrote in that letter that we should go to the gym. Really. I'm not making this up.
ReplyDelete@8:34. Funny, I left Gannett to be a consultant because Gannett would not let me "do".
ReplyDeleteChapple should first take an ethics test, before anyone engage him. Remember he turned a blind eye to the Asbury Park Press and Snidely's doings when things were going so well there. Dougy, Chapple etal. didn't give a rat's ass about the hanky panky as long as the numbers looked good..
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I thought he was a great guy. Talked with him several times and seemed very genuine actually remembering things we talked about previously. As for "retired" if you call leaving the buidling abruptly and having HR pack up your office is retiring, then I must be confused.
ReplyDelete2:17, it was a bitter departure, no "retiring" by any means. HR didn't pack up; he was gone during the day but around at night to do it himself. I wish him the best; I can say that he's very happy to be out of there.
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