When the top leadership of an organization changes, boards often make decisions that seem sensible, but which may not reflect the pattern that made a company successful to begin with. A major reason is that the heir apparent to a highly successful CEO often has quite different skill sets.
Very relevant article to myself. I have first hand experienced with new CEO in a couple of companies that took the helm and then proceeded to sink the ship. My experiences is never, I mean never, hire a new CEO that is classed as a "professional" manager, or sales person, these are the worst types imho. The Sales CEO type is perhaps the most dangerous as they are likeable, convincing and seemingly trustworthy but these are what you want in sales people, also they are the best at plausible excuses and blaming someone else for failure in a nice way, how else do you expect them to not make thier sales quota, got to have good excuses.
Very relevant article to myself. I have first hand experienced with new CEO in a couple of companies that took the helm and then proceeded to sink the ship. My experiences is never, I mean never, hire a new CEO that is classed as a "professional" manager, or sales person, these are the worst types imho. The Sales CEO type is perhaps the most dangerous as they are likeable, convincing and seemingly trustworthy but these are what you want in sales people, also they are the best at plausible excuses and blaming someone else for failure in a nice way, how else do you expect them to not make thier sales quota, got to have good excuses.