Top CEOs To Look Out For in 2014

Jason Goldberg

The once-booming design products flash sales site had a less than a fabulous 2013, with plunging traffic, a reduction in production overseas, and widespread layoffs; Fab Company’s co-founder Brad Shellhammer even left the company in November owing to this sluggish decline.

Despite this problems Goldberg insists that the company is not in trouble, and that its key long-term metrics are trending positively. And with 2014 just beginning and layoffs confirmed to continue through February 15, people have to thereby wait and see what Goldberg means by that.

Kazuo Hirai

After the powerful PlayStation 4 sales, since the gaming systems launch last November, Hirai announced at CES this month with an upcoming cloud-based game service anticipated for summer launch.

The service, to be called PlayStation Now, will give gamers instant access to games from previous generations of PS consoles, and allow them to play PS games from other devices, including tablets, which is a huge deal for gaming enthusiasts.
Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh is always experimenting. He’s been working to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by investing $350 million of his own money into the city through his Downtown Project, with the intension of making Vegas the smartest, and the most community-minded city in the world. It’s a lofty goal, for a city run by casino tourism where few people want to live.

Internally, Hsieh recently introduced a managerial system of holacracy; he’s eliminating all titles and managers in favor of a series of overlapping "circles" where people can have several different roles. As a company, Zappos continues to do well, but many feel this new anti-hierarchy structure could tip the scale.
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