[Zafira]

I disagree, it's really damaging to refuse to let go of the reins.

Bob Iger at Disney never really took succession seriously and then never really left which has left the company somewhat rudderless because the ship is now dependent on a person and not culture/policy.

[klelatti]

Lack of succession planning and an overdominant CEO are utterly distinct concepts to the approach being described here.

[alephnerd]

One usually begets the other.

[klelatti]

Quite the opposite. Lack of succession planning is unlikely to be correlated with the effort required to organise retention of staff as Apple do.

And an overly dominant CEO generally doesn’t like senior staff who might provide counsel to stick around.

[philistine]

I don't think Iger is comparable; all his groomed successors left before he did, so Chapek ended up with the hot potato to terrible results.

Apple has not lost a single potential successor to Tim Cook. And don't count Johnny Ive it's ridiculous to assume he could run that company. In 2004 maybe but certainly not the giant of 2024.

[usui]

Do you feel moreso people depend on culture, moreso culture depends on people, or equally interdependent?