{"id":13540,"date":"2025-03-19T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T23:54:03","slug":"companies-dont-survive-4-bad-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13540","title":{"rendered":"Companies don’t survive 4 bad CEO’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fortune wrote an article<\/a> on how Intel is the latest Fortune 500 giant to test the \u20184 wrong CEOs\u2019 rule. The rule? No company survives 4 bad CEO’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They note author Jim Collins (Built to Last<\/em>, Good to Great<\/em>, Great by Choice<\/em>) the stages of a great company’s decline are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Hubris borne of success<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Undisciplined pursuit of more<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Denial of risk and peril<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Grasping for salvation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Capitulation to irrelevance or death<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Fortune wrote an article on how Intel is the latest Fortune 500 giant to test the \u20184 wrong CEOs\u2019 rule. The rule? No company survives 4 bad CEO’s. They note author Jim Collins (Built to Last, Good to Great, Great by Choice) the stages of a great company’s decline are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3wo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13768,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}