埃隆·马斯克与鲍勃·艾格被同行评为最被高估的CEO
SUNNY NAGPAUL 2024-02-02
《财富》邀请CEO们评价出最被高估和最被低估的同行。
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《财富》杂志最受赞赏的公司年度榜单揭晓。第26期榜单调查了数千名高管、公司、董事和行业分析师,根据竞争对手和朋友的评价评估大公司的信誉。除了对公司进行排名以外,我们还邀请CEO们评价出最被高估和最被低估的同行。
被399位投票者认为最被高估的CEO是谁?他就是特斯拉(Tesla)和SpaceX的CEO埃隆·马斯克,他在去年同样名列榜首。
埃隆·马斯克的目标与方法
马斯克有雄心勃勃的目标,例如他在十年内移民火星的计划和自动驾驶汽车等,还有他对公共交通的反感,这可以解释为什么认为马斯克被高估的投票者比2019年多了59人。
马斯克显然在努力实现自己的目标。他宣称火星是一个适合居住的星球,“虽然有点冷,但我们可以让它变暖”,而且火星白天的时长“非常接近地球”。据Business Insider报道,他计划在几年内,将他的火箭“星舰”发射到火星,进行一次无人飞行,然后他希望将人类送去火星移民,并在那里建设工厂。Business Insider报道称,人类在火星上将生活在玻璃穹顶建筑内,因为火星空气中二氧化碳和氮气含量高,不适合呼吸。然后他希望让火星变暖到足以适合人类生活的温度。
作为该领域的绝对权威,美国宇航局(NASA)表示,目前的技术无法在火星上创造类似于地球的环境,或者将火星地球化。
商界领袖们认为马斯克的火星移民计划是“痴心妄想”,其中包括太空旅游公司Titans Space的CEO尼尔·拉赫曼,拉赫曼在分析马斯克的火星计划时写道,火箭是“人类发明的最危险的运输方式”,这是美国宇航局经过至少三次爆炸之后得到的惨痛教训。拉赫曼写道,由于物理法则的约束,“无论我们的技术、工程或材料多么先进,垂直发射的火箭始终是极其危险的。”
目前在火星上生活只是一个梦想,除此之外,马斯克还有许多梦想没有可交付的产品提供支持。去年夏天,他提到特斯拉自动驾驶汽车将在年底上市,这实际上已经推迟了实现目标的期限,因为他在2016年就首次承诺汽车将具有“完全自动驾驶”功能。
一项研究发现,尽管自动驾驶汽车确实能带来好处,尤其是一旦再次发生疫情需要隔离医疗转运的时候,但“法律法规并没有为这种变化做好准备”,而且法律部门“的行动落后于自动驾驶汽车的发展,并没有发挥带头作用”。
据《华盛顿邮报》报道,人工智能专家认为,自动驾驶汽车的到来仍需要数十年时间。
马斯克还想设计一座城市,但他的这个想法却在他的社交媒体平台X(原Twitter)上遭到批评,公共交通规划师和博主贾勒特·沃克表示,让亿万富翁“设计城市是实际上是在进行精英投射”。马斯克遭人诟病的另外一个原因可能是他侮辱性的言行,例如他回复沃克说:“你是个傻瓜。”
还有特斯拉。特斯拉面临中国更廉价的电动汽车日益激烈的竞争,而且尽管特斯拉的汽车经过多次降价,在本月召开的财报电话会议上,特斯拉还是预测其业绩增长“将大幅减慢”。这导致特斯拉的股价自年初以来暴跌了25%,市值缩水了820亿美元。
迪士尼(Disney)的排名为二十年最低
第二位最被高估的CEO是迪士尼的鲍勃·艾格,得票数为302票,这表明公司、董事和分析师可能并不认为这位迪士尼的掌门人具有很高的价值。
自2012年以来,沃尔特·迪士尼的娱乐公司首次跌出了前十大最受赞赏的公司榜单,排在第12位。米老鼠的帝国迪士尼一直问题不断,例如前CEO鲍勃·查佩克与前任和继任者鲍勃·艾格之间的较量;自2019年以来公司流媒体产品亏损100亿美元;公司没有文化上的转变,导致员工和观众都感觉与老套或超级英雄驱动的故事情节格格不入等。艾格就像克林特·伊斯特伍德为环球影业(Universal Pictures)拍摄的电影《勇闯雷霆峰》(The Eiger Sanction)中的角色一样,他退休后重回工作岗位,帮助迪士尼保持盈利能力,为了节约75亿美元成本,很快就裁员7,000人。
迪士尼的股价持续下跌,同比下跌了9%,在去年夏天其股价跌至9年最低水平。
对大公司而言并非全是坏消息。高管们还评出了被低估的同行。微软(Microsoft)的萨蒂亚·纳德拉连续八年被评为最被低估的首席执行官,获得274票。去年,这位CEO的表现尤其抢眼,他扩大了微软与OpenAI的投资合作伙伴关系,在OpenAI的CEO山姆·阿尔特曼被解雇后从中调解并让他回归公司,而且尽管遭到英国和欧洲监管部门的反对,他还是完成了微软以690亿美元收购视频游戏发行商动视暴雪(Activision Blizzard)的交易。(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
《财富》杂志最受赞赏的公司年度榜单揭晓。第26期榜单调查了数千名高管、公司、董事和行业分析师,根据竞争对手和朋友的评价评估大公司的信誉。除了对公司进行排名以外,我们还邀请CEO们评价出最被高估和最被低估的同行。
被399位投票者认为最被高估的CEO是谁?他就是特斯拉(Tesla)和SpaceX的CEO埃隆·马斯克,他在去年同样名列榜首。
埃隆·马斯克的目标与方法
马斯克有雄心勃勃的目标,例如他在十年内移民火星的计划和自动驾驶汽车等,还有他对公共交通的反感,这可以解释为什么认为马斯克被高估的投票者比2019年多了59人。
马斯克显然在努力实现自己的目标。他宣称火星是一个适合居住的星球,“虽然有点冷,但我们可以让它变暖”,而且火星白天的时长“非常接近地球”。据Business Insider报道,他计划在几年内,将他的火箭“星舰”发射到火星,进行一次无人飞行,然后他希望将人类送去火星移民,并在那里建设工厂。Business Insider报道称,人类在火星上将生活在玻璃穹顶建筑内,因为火星空气中二氧化碳和氮气含量高,不适合呼吸。然后他希望让火星变暖到足以适合人类生活的温度。
作为该领域的绝对权威,美国宇航局(NASA)表示,目前的技术无法在火星上创造类似于地球的环境,或者将火星地球化。
商界领袖们认为马斯克的火星移民计划是“痴心妄想”,其中包括太空旅游公司Titans Space的CEO尼尔·拉赫曼,拉赫曼在分析马斯克的火星计划时写道,火箭是“人类发明的最危险的运输方式”,这是美国宇航局经过至少三次爆炸之后得到的惨痛教训。拉赫曼写道,由于物理法则的约束,“无论我们的技术、工程或材料多么先进,垂直发射的火箭始终是极其危险的。”
目前在火星上生活只是一个梦想,除此之外,马斯克还有许多梦想没有可交付的产品提供支持。去年夏天,他提到特斯拉自动驾驶汽车将在年底上市,这实际上已经推迟了实现目标的期限,因为他在2016年就首次承诺汽车将具有“完全自动驾驶”功能。
一项研究发现,尽管自动驾驶汽车确实能带来好处,尤其是一旦再次发生疫情需要隔离医疗转运的时候,但“法律法规并没有为这种变化做好准备”,而且法律部门“的行动落后于自动驾驶汽车的发展,并没有发挥带头作用”。
据《华盛顿邮报》报道,人工智能专家认为,自动驾驶汽车的到来仍需要数十年时间。
马斯克还想设计一座城市,但他的这个想法却在他的社交媒体平台X(原Twitter)上遭到批评,公共交通规划师和博主贾勒特·沃克表示,让亿万富翁“设计城市是实际上是在进行精英投射”。马斯克遭人诟病的另外一个原因可能是他侮辱性的言行,例如他回复沃克说:“你是个傻瓜。”
还有特斯拉。特斯拉面临中国更廉价的电动汽车日益激烈的竞争,而且尽管特斯拉的汽车经过多次降价,在本月召开的财报电话会议上,特斯拉还是预测其业绩增长“将大幅减慢”。这导致特斯拉的股价自年初以来暴跌了25%,市值缩水了820亿美元。
迪士尼(Disney)的排名为二十年最低
第二位最被高估的CEO是迪士尼的鲍勃·艾格,得票数为302票,这表明公司、董事和分析师可能并不认为这位迪士尼的掌门人具有很高的价值。
自2012年以来,沃尔特·迪士尼的娱乐公司首次跌出了前十大最受赞赏的公司榜单,排在第12位。米老鼠的帝国迪士尼一直问题不断,例如前CEO鲍勃·查佩克与前任和继任者鲍勃·艾格之间的较量;自2019年以来公司流媒体产品亏损100亿美元;公司没有文化上的转变,导致员工和观众都感觉与老套或超级英雄驱动的故事情节格格不入等。艾格就像克林特·伊斯特伍德为环球影业(Universal Pictures)拍摄的电影《勇闯雷霆峰》(The Eiger Sanction)中的角色一样,他退休后重回工作岗位,帮助迪士尼保持盈利能力,为了节约75亿美元成本,很快就裁员7,000人。
迪士尼的股价持续下跌,同比下跌了9%,在去年夏天其股价跌至9年最低水平。
对大公司而言并非全是坏消息。高管们还评出了被低估的同行。微软(Microsoft)的萨蒂亚·纳德拉连续八年被评为最被低估的首席执行官,获得274票。去年,这位CEO的表现尤其抢眼,他扩大了微软与OpenAI的投资合作伙伴关系,在OpenAI的CEO山姆·阿尔特曼被解雇后从中调解并让他回归公司,而且尽管遭到英国和欧洲监管部门的反对,他还是完成了微软以690亿美元收购视频游戏发行商动视暴雪(Activision Blizzard)的交易。(财富中文网)
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Fortune‘s annual list of most admired companies is out. The survey, now in its 26th edition, has been sent to thousands of executives, businesses, directors, and industry analysts to measure big businesses’ reputations, as told by their rivals and friends. In addition to ranking companies, we also asked CEOs to rank which of their peers are overrated and which don’t get enough credit.
The most overrated CEO, according to 399 voters? Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk, who was also named No. 1 on the “overrated” list last year.
Elon Musk’s goals vs. approach
Musk’s aggressive goals, like his otherworldly ambitions for a Mars civilization and self-driving cars within the decade, combined with his dislike for public transit, could explain why about 59 more voters shared this view on Musk than in 2019.
On goals, Musk clearly delivers. He’s marketed Mars as a habitable planet that’s “a little cold, but we can warm it up,” and with a day length “remarkably close to that of Earth.” He plans to send his rocket, Starship, on an unmanned journey to the red planet in a few years, and then wants to send people to colonize and build factories there, according to Business Insider. Mars people would live in glass domes, the outlet reported, since the planet’s air, with high levels of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, would be unbreathable. He then wants to warm the planet enough for people to live on.
According to NASA, arguably the authority on the topic, present-day technology is incapable of terraforming, or creating an Earth-like environment, on Mars.
Business leaders including Neal Lachman, the CEO of space tourism company Titans Space, have called Musk’s dream to colonize Mars delusion. In an analysis of Musk’s Mars ideas, Lachman wrote that rockets are “the most dangerous method of transportation ever invented,” which NASA had to discover the hard way after at least three exploded. Due to the laws of physics, Lachman wrote, “vertically launched rockets will always remain extremely dangerous—no matter how advanced our technologies, engineering, and materials will be.”
For now life on Mars is still just a song, but it’s one of many that Musk hums without the goods to fully back it up. Last summer, he spoke of self-driving Teslas that would arrive by the end of the year—essentially moving the goalposts since first promising “full self-driving” capabilities for the cars back in 2016.
One study found that while autonomous cars promise benefits, especially in isolated medical transport in the case of another pandemic, “laws and regulations are not yet ready for this change” and that legal sectors are “following the development of autonomous vehicles instead of taking the lead.”
AI experts think the timeline for a self-driving car is still decades away, according to the Washington Post.
Musk, who also seeks to design a city, faced criticism on his social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, when transit planner and blogger Jarrett Walker said letting the billionaire “design cities is the essence of elite projection.” Another reason pitted against Musk might also be the insults he doles out, like in his reply to Walker: “you’re an idiot.”
And then there’s Tesla. The company has faced increased competition from cheaper Chinese EVs, and it predicted “notably slower” growth on its earnings call this month, even after cutting car prices multiple times. The revelation sent its stock plunging 25% since the start of the year, a wipeout that erased $82 billion in market value for Tesla.
Disney dips to its lowest ranking in two decades
The No. 2 most overrated CEO, according to 302 votes, is Disney’s Bob Iger—showing that businesses, directors, and analysts may not think Disney’s treasures are worth their weight in gold.
For the first time since 2012, Walt Disney’s entertainment company fell short of the top 10 All-Stars list, instead securing the 12th spot. The empire of Mickey Mouse has been busy: There was a battle of Bobs between former CEO Bob Chapek and his predecessor—and successor—Bob Iger; the company’s $10 billion losses on its streaming product since 2019; and a lack of cultural shifts that have left workers and viewers feeling ostracized by clichéd or superhero-driven storylines. Iger, like Clint Eastwood’s character in the Universal Pictures film The Eiger Sanction, returned to work out of retirement to help steady Disney’s sails to profitability, quickly cutting 7,000 jobs to try to save about $7.5 billion in costs.
Still, Disney’s shares keep falling, declining 9% year over year, and hit a nine-year low in stock price last summer.
It’s not all bad news for big companies. Executives also shared their thoughts on which of their peers didn’t get enough credit. For the eighth year running, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella topped the list, with 274 votes, for most underrated chief executive officer. Last year was a particularly visible one for the CEO, who expanded Microsoft’s investment partnership with OpenAI, mediated the firing and rehiring drama of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and closed Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard despite opposition from U.K. and European regulators.