Innovation and Attention
Get a truly innovative chief executive to open up candidly, and you can learn a great deal. We feature five such CEOs in this issue. The first is Danny Meyer, the remarkable entrepreneur who started New York City’s iconic Union Square Cafe and the wildly successful Shake Shack chain. In Ann Graham’s profile, “Danny Meyer’s Recipe for Success,” we look closely at the philosophy he calls “enlightened hospitality,” which Meyer used to help scale both his company and its culture (page 82). Second is Tim Armstrong, the digital media pioneer at the helm of Oath, the Verizon subsidiary whose assets include AOL, Huff Post, and Yahoo (page 136). The other three CEOs — Melissa Snover of Katjes Magic Candy Factory, Shin Sakane of Seven Dreamers Laboratories, and Valentin Stalf of…