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Old 08-16-2015, 11:24 AM  
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer View Post
The President/CEO and Chairman died about 10 years ago. What you are seeing are the final stages of decline where all the greatness he brought to the company ceased to exist and the company slowly dies. I shouldn't be shocking if in 10 years we are all asking "what happened to Apple?"... or if Elon Musk dies, "what happened to Tesla".

A successful founder, President, CEO etc works hard to create a culture (such as the founder of Sony), they rarely work hard to create a system where that culture will continue without them. Sony only made it as far as one leader past the founder before the company culture eroded.
Very, very true.

So far Apple has been weathering the loss of Jobs - but they haven't really done anything exceptionally innovative.

I'd forgotten about Sony's loss of their President/CEO a decade ago. But now that you mention it, you can definitely see a steady decline in the company since that point.

Look at Chrysler's history. Same situation. They were on the ropes prior and after Lee Iacoca's tenure.
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