BY ANITA BRUZZESE | GANNETT NEWS SERVICE You’d think that Tom Stern was born with it all as the son of a mogul cable television father and a grandfather who built Sears, Roebuck and Co. It would seem pretty clear that Stern would never lack for money or opportunity – success was in his genes.…
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‘CEO Dadism’ victim finds relief in self-deprecationBY JULIA M. SCOTT, Staff WriterArticle Last Updated: 04/16/2007 08:59:26 PM PDT WOODLAND HILLS – Tom Stern has been in recovery for five years, two months and 25 days. His addiction? CEO Dadism – when workaholic business executives treat family like employees. Stern, 51, beat his addiction by creating…
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By Kimberly PalmerPosted 4/22/07 Tom Stern finally realized he had a problem when his wife kicked him out of the house. His workaholic tendencies-and the fact that he treated his family members as if they were employees-had finally grown too much for her. In CEO Dad, Stern turns inward to figure out where he went…
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By Paul J. Gough and Kimberly Nordyke TMarch 21, 2007CNBC is developing an animated series based on the comic strip “CEO Dad,” which could become a half-hour series on the network in the fall. Sources said the network will likely air five one-minute shorts that will be cut from a pilot based on the cartoon…
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Tom Stern has set out to create the next Dilbert. Can he do it? Here’s his story by Ryan Underwood Vaughn Meader, a comic who made an unfortunately brief career of doing impressions of John F. Kennedy, used to have a bit in which he would play President Kennedy eating dinner at home with his…
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