An excerpt from Dead Execs Don’t Get Bonuse$: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Your Career With a Healthy Heart.
The details of the careers and tragic deaths of these CEOs are a matter of public record, and the disruption that followed their deaths was enormous. Take Ranjan Das, for example. At age forty-two, he was the regional CEO of SAP for the Indian subcontinent and the youngest CEO of a multinational corporation in India. He was returning home after using the corporate gym when he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.
Das was known for his healthy diet and exercise habits. He had finished a marathon just months before his death (reminiscent of Jim Fixx, the world-famous runner, and author of The Complete Book of Running, who died suddenly of heart disease at age fifty-two).
Das had led all marketing activities at SAP and designed and managed many revenue-generating functions involving software sales and support and had previously founded a startup in Silicon Valley. He graduated from MIT with a full scholarship and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He wrote short stories and essays and was planning to make a movie.
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