Michael Polk on Why Private Companies Move Differently
Not every retired chief executive comes back to run a smaller company. Michael Polk Newell Brands did, and his account of the switch offers a window into what changes when a leader moves from a public giant to a privately held business. Polk spent years at Kraft Foods and Unilever before running Newell Brands, and by the time he stepped away from Newell in 2019, he had overseen one of the more visible turnarounds in consumer goods.Rather than...