In the News – CEOs Would Rather Be Bald than Short!

I was recently interviewed by USA Today reporter Del Jones for an article about balding CEOs, and I’m pleased to see that it was printed on the cover of the Money section of today’s issue!

From the article:

CEOs say being bald doesn’t impede success and, given a choice, it’s better to be bald than short. So widely held is this conventional wisdom among top executives that when asked to choose, most CEOs say they’d take 2 more inches of height over a full head of Robert Redford hair.

Even most bald CEOs, including many who are both tall and bald, would choose to be taller. “Lack of hair can only mean the brain is busy with more important functions,” says Murray Martin, the 5-foot-8 CEO of $5.7 billion Pitney Bowes, who is being generous when he describes his hair as “thinning.”

Full text — USA Today – The bald truth about CEOs