The right man at the right time

If you accept my thesis that many aging tech companies resemble the Walking Dead, you should also accept the follow-up proposition that what these companies need are not “visionary” CEOs but pragmatic ones, less Steve the visionary, and more Larry the Liquidator, a person with limited ambitions and a readiness to preside over the dismantling of an enterprise.

Prof. Aswath Damodaran – Indian-American accountant, manager and financial educator at New York University (b. 1957), in hi blog “The Yahoo! Chronicles! Is this the End Game?” (7.12.2015)