As many outgoing chiefs do, Levi Strauss’ Charles (or Chip) Bergh has been reflecting on his time at the company—and there’s one thing during his 13-year stint at the helm that he wishes he'd done differently.
By his second day on the job, he told CNBC, he knew that the best way to turn around the stale company was to refresh its leadership team, and so within a year of running the world’s most famous jeans company, Bergh had fired more than half of his executives.
