CEOs 'ridiculously overpaid': former Westpac boss

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Former Westpac boss David Morgan says company chief executives are 'ridiculously overpaid' but the intense pressure of the job causes some to 'literally weep' in private | clancyyeates

Former Westpac boss David Morgan says company chief executives are "ridiculously overpaid" but the intense pressure of the job causes some to "literally weep" in private.

Former prime minister Paul Keating with former Westpac CEO David Morgan at the launch of the latter's biography in Sydney."Most people don't talk about it honestly," Dr Morgan said in an interview with the book's author, journalist Oliver Brown. The function was attended by senior business and political figures including former prime minister Paul Keating, former premier Bob Carr and his wife Helena, Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer, Dr Morgan's wife Ros Kelly, a former Labor minister, former Treasury secretary and Westpac chairman Ted Evans, former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, and Mike Cannon-Brookes snr, who set up the US bank Citi in Australia.

 

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clancyyeates I’ll take half their pay to be less corrupt, greedy and incompetent.

clancyyeates I’d happily cry at my desk to earn $25,000+ a week.

clancyyeates Curious, will The Sydney Morning Herald be covering the two March JulianAssange rallies in Australia? TruthMatters SEP_Australia JamesCogan Unity4J auspol

clancyyeates Incredible!!

grhutchens clancyyeates Weeping is a normal function of brain growth. Learning stuff and being in complex situations REQUIRES brain growth. No biggy. Except if, of course if you are a white man psychopath. No brain growth there, often. It's been brutalised out of you.

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