Chief executive transitions in the IT industry often tend toward melodrama or at least bald quirkiness: The number of ignominious CEO departures at HP and Yahoo could qualify both companies for their own telenovelas. After successfully acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle unceremoniously booted CEO Jonathan Swartz, an event he noted by tweeting a Zen-like haiku. Steve Jobs’ tragic decline was obvious for months before Apple publicly acknowledged anything was wrong. The fact is that CEO departures and arrivals do matter.
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VMworld 2012: Passing the Torch - and the Ammunition
Posted by: Charles King September 11, 2012 05:00 AMChief executive transitions in the IT industry often tend toward melodrama or at least bald quirkiness: The number of ignominious CEO departures at HP and Yahoo could qualify both companies for their own telenovelas. After successfully acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle unceremoniously booted CEO Jonathan Swartz, an event he noted by tweeting a Zen-like haiku. Steve Jobs’ tragic decline was obvious for months before Apple publicly acknowledged anything was wrong. The fact is that CEO departures and arrivals do matter.