Cutting Costs by Offshoring Top Executives

JeffLindsay.com, through its partnership with Off the Top, Inc., is proud to be the first major US corporation to adopt "executive offshoring." This is bound to be the hottest new trend in business: exporting the jobs of upper management to low-cost developing nations to cut costs AND (in many cases) improve the quality of executive performance.

Because we were so impressed with the premium "Offshore Executive" service we obtained with Off the Top, Inc., JeffLindsay.com is pleased to provide a little publicity for Off the Top in the form of this Web page. (We also get 30 cents a day taken off the salary of our new offshore CEO.)

Our former overly compensated CEO, Jeff Lindsay, explains his impressive and trend-setting decision:

After years of futile cost-cutting efforts, I realized that my salary as CEO of JeffLindsay.com was more than the combined salary of all my programmers, customer service specialists, technical support staff, artists, humorists, and custodial staff, all of whom I had worked valiantly to offshore or simply downsize. But it was not enough. Then I ran into the good folks at Off the Top, Inc. during a cost-cutting/downsizing workshop in Hawaii. They were happy to help, and charged a lot less than you might expect (half the going price for outside consultants: about 25% of our revenues for the next five years). I saw that if I really wanted to cut costs and be fair about it, my own job had to be put on the chopping block of offshore placement.

But could an offshore candidate be found who would be willing to take on the stress of an executive lifestyle, make the myriad decisions demanded of my job, and achieve the same levels of success that I had? The good folks at Off the Top gave it to me straight, and I'll never forget their words:

"Sure, why not? Frankly, you haven't done much for your pathetic corporation, Mr. Lindsay. A crash dummy could have done better. But we can find someone willing to work hard, someone willing to take risks, someone who can inspire others with his stories of adventure, and someone with even better looks than you could ever hope for. And all this for just $1.50 a day!!"Ouch! The truth can really hurt, but in the end, it healed. (I'm still not convinced that a crash dummy could have done better - but to be safe, we added a couple to our board of directors.)
The leaders of Off the Top then flew me to Nepal, where I met the ideal candidate for my job, Jeferu "Shep" Linsee, a mountain climber, indigenous accountant, mystic, and local business man who raised goats and occasionally helped haul supplies up the sides of Mount Everest during the tourist season. He had more inspiring stories to tell than any overpriced motivational speaker we had ever brought in to our corporate activities. He could even speak some English. And with those dashing good looks and rugged manliness, I knew the press and the analysts on Wall Street would love him.

Training my future replacement was hard, but I knew it was the right thing for my company. My life as a CEO was over. Fortunately, I was able to find work with another local company, and while my salary is only a tiny fraction of what a typical CEO makes, I feel good knowing that "Shep" is doing better than I ever did and doing it each day for less than the cost of a hamburger with fries. And there you have the story of JeffLindsay.com, the first major US corporation to adopt Off the Top's fair, humane, and cost-effective practice of offshoring its senior executives. And now, we present some information prepared by our friends at Off the Top.