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At the centre When a company fails, the board is to blame rather than the CEO. Holds BABill Ackman Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix. Holds WHWayne Hale
• Similar wording Firing a chief executive for bad results is several levels of wrong; the question is what company they carved out of the opportunity they were handed. Holds TLTobias Lütke
• Similar wording Hiring a head of growth to reverse a declining business is destined to fail, because the cause of the decline is deeper than the missing team. Holds EVElena Verna
• Similar wording Deep tech companies rarely fail because the technology does not work; they fail because nobody built the systems to run the organisation around it. Holds MHMax Hodak
• Similar wording Venture boards govern badly because a VC director's interest in winning the next deal outweighs their interest in this company. Holds BABill Ackman
• Similar wording An overwhelmed team is partly the manager’s fault, because pushing back on the team’s work commitments is the manager’s job. Holds CFCamille Fournier