General Electric

Compensation is comparable, but you work endlessly. It's a good place to learn, then get out of there after two to four years. It's kind of like making a deal with the Ghost Rider mentality: damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Learn to play the high-performance game early on in your career here, or else you'll find yourself under the bus every day.

Learn to listen to logic and not what you think you know.

Understand the value of thinking outside of the box instead of just saying it to your employees and owning the implementation of the concept.

Since you admire your CEO so much, review his management style and then look at your own. See how that aligns and works for you and your department.