2 posts and columns on succession plans

Welch to HP Board: You Don’t Know Jack!

in News on October 5, 2010 at 2:08 pm PT

Well, look at that, Jack Welch just one-upped Larry Ellison in the HP-bashing game. The master manager unloaded on the company today during a series of interviews at the World Business Forum, slagging HP’s board for mishandling its CEOs and the company’s management succession plans.

Sounds Like Steve Picked a Good Meeting to Skip

in News on February 25, 2009 at 1:43 pm PT

Aside from a spontaneous “Happy Birthday” sung to an absent CEO Steve Jobs, Apple’s annual meeting today was something of a nonevent. Shareholders re-elected the company’s board of directors despite concerns about its handling of the disclosure of Jobs’s health problems. And the board continued to wave off questions about the company’s succession plans and Jobs’s well-being.
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