Sales bounce back; CEO to shave his head as promised
At 58, Mike Curreri, CEO of Baltimore-based AVIcode, seems to have a nice head of hair, right?
Well, later today, he's expected to have his employees shave it off. All of it.
Here's the backstory: Curreri's company was in the doldrums in late 2008/early 2009 due to the recession. He considered layoffs. But instead, he cut salaries 15 percent.
He then made a deal with his sales team that if they reached 90 percent of their goal for the 3Q this year, he'd give everyone their full salary back, plus a bonus to make up for the pain.
For added motivation, he vowed that if they reached 100 percent of their sales goal, he'd get his head buzzed.
Of course, the sales folks hit their mark -- and today Curreri is getting his lush mane seriously trimmed. Each employee will get to take a cut, too.
The "before" photo of Curreri is above. We hope to bring you an "after" photo when AVIcode employees are done cutting.
It's so refreshing to see employees giving their boss a hair cut, isn't it? :-)
