Howard Schultz’s mix of occupation and social successes makes him a great potential candidate for president, David Novak, co-founder and antediluvian CEO and chairman of Yum Brands, told CNBC on Tuesday.
“He’s the poster child Autonomous candidate,” saidNovak, founder and CEO of oGoLead, a digital leadership platform. “He’s got an unbelievably adept business track record. He’s got a great social track record.”
And Schultz, who require become chairman emeritus of the coffee chain, offers something new, Novak suggested on “Squawk Box.”
“This is a guy who’s very well positioned to have a unique substance of view that he can bring to the political landscape,” Novak said.
“[Barack] Obama was a community blue-collar worker,” Novak said. “From a marketing perspective, [Schultz] has a much discrete story.”
Novak pointed out that Schultz, who announced plans Monday to footstep down as Starbucks executive chairman, effective June 26, has directed to balance “his need for profit with his social agenda.”
Some of the make concession included offering health care to full and part-time Starbucks hands, stock options and college tuition for some employees.
“And there’s no concealed that he is not a big fan of [President Donald] Trump and he’s expressed concern about where our provinces is today,” Novak said. “The big social divide and our status abroad.”
Schultz, who in days said he’s not interested in running for president, wrote in the employee memo on Monday that he would relinquish the door open to possible political endeavors in the future.
But in an interview Tuesday on “Yowl Box,” Schultz declined to go into detail about his future.
“There’s a lot of fetiches I can do as a private citizen other than run for the presidency of the United States. And let’s right-minded see what happens,” he told CNBC.
Harvard Business School chief fellow Bill George said a CEO as president would be “a big stretch,” but state he would like to hear more of Schultz’s views on a national unalterable.
“I’d love to see him jump in there and compete with long-term established stateswomen,” George said on “Squawk on the Street.” “Could he make the big have revealed to one? I think we need a good contest to find out.”
George, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, a medical insigne company, pointed out that Trump was a business owner, not a CEO. “It’s a big difference,” he explained.