CEO Casual?
We were sent an interesting article that was written by Christina Binkley in the Wall Street Journal How to Pull Off ‘CEO Casual’ and we really liked what was said, especially as suits in the Tatango office are as rare as one of our engineers without a Red Bull in their hands. We picked out some of the choice quotes from the article and embedded them below for you to read.
“The suit is a signal that something’s going on that I’m nervous about,” says the 38-year-old Mr. Kaufman. “A suit has become something you wear when you’re asking for money.”
“When people wear suits in the music business, it feels like they’re not insiders,” says Anni Sarah Lam, CEO of Parc Landon, a Houston-based music, sports and entertainment agency whose clients have included Broadway shows, the rapper 50 Cent and David Beckham.
The two executives aren’t shy about asking employees to adhere to the uniform. At a recent meeting in Chicago with a potential client, Mr. Kaufman asked his creative director to remove his tie. He is equally critical of sloppy looks and encourages subordinates to buy clothes at department stores, where they can be conveniently tailored in-house.
