{"id":219,"date":"2006-08-08T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=219"},"modified":"2006-08-08T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T17:21:43","slug":"ceos-are-utilitarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/ceos-are-utilitarians\/","title":{"rendered":"CEOs are Utilitarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder along with Cars.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\/jobposter\/smallbiz\/articles.aspx?prid=pr316&#038;siteid=JP_Mail_NL_A&#038;sc_extcmp=JP_Mail_NL_SalesKillers&#038;cbRecursionCnt=1&#038;cbsid=e9ea2bf8a7e0433099522be9ebb2a76f-208353865-F5-4\" target=\"_blank\">performed a survey<\/a> to find out what cars CEO&#8217;s drive. I don&#8217;t know if this data has any real application, but I found it interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is more CEOs surveyed drive ordinary passenger cars and SUVs than luxury cars; in fact, those who drive Chevys outnumber those in Mercedes. And while most respondents think CEOs spend more than $70,000 on their cars, the average price CEOs in this study payed for their primary vehicle is under $25,000. One-in-four (26%) CEOs surveyed reported they spent less than $20,000 on their primary vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you surprised? I&#8217;m not for 1 reason &#8211; the majority of CEO&#8217;s we have evaluated tend to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Process_Motivations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Utilitarians<\/a>. They seek a good return on their investment. As most people know, cars tend to be one of the worst investments you can make.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting follow up survey would be to discover how large CEO homes are. I suspect that survey would produce some different results since homes\/real estate tend to be fantastic investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerBuilder along with Cars.com performed a survey to find out what cars CEO&#8217;s drive. I don&#8217;t know if this data has any real application, but I found it interesting: The truth is more CEOs surveyed drive ordinary passenger cars and SUVs than luxury cars; in fact, those who drive Chevys outnumber those in Mercedes. And while most respondents think CEOs spend more than $70,000 on their cars, the average price CEOs in this study payed for their primary vehicle is under $25,000. One-in-four (26%) CEOs surveyed reported they spent less than $20,000 on their primary vehicle. Are you surprised? I&#8217;m not for 1 reason &#8211; the majority of CEO&#8217;s we&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/ceos-are-utilitarians\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-3x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->