Today’s LA Times asks a good question: Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO?
Business writers Walter Hamilton and Jessica Guynn dig into an issue that I suspect some of us have seen before, and it’s remarkable that the clamor over Zuck specifically hasn’t been louder for some time.
Should Mark Zuckerberg, the social media visionary but neophyte corporate manager, step aside as CEO to let a more seasoned executive run the multibillion-dollar company? Continue reading
If I were an angel investor I’d probably have written four or five checks yesterday.
Well, I should probably qualify that. I’m not a finance guy, and I haven’t had a chance to vet the leadership teams and have my team review the science behind some of the green tech proposals. And hey, I thought the University of Colorado made a great decision when it hired Rick Neuheisel, so my judgment is far from infallible. Continue reading
I’ve written recently about some generational issues facing companies – most notably the “macro-succession crisis” that I suspect very few corporations have even thought about in meaningful detail. In that post I examine how the coming Baby Boomer retirement explosion is going to engender all kinds of crisis, especially in larger legacy corporations that are so top-heavy with Boomer leaders that their Gen X successors are ill-prepared for the transition that must begin taking place in the next five years.
But if you’re a different kind of company – say an entrepreneurial outfit started and run by front-edge Xers (people now in their early to mid-40s) – you’re in good shape, right? You aren’t facing a retirement wave. You aren’t facing the need for a painful adjustment from Boomer-style leadership to the far different style of Xer execs. And this means there’s going to be no leadership vacuum at the top sucking everybody higher in the organization and creating trainwrecks at the Xer-to-Millennial lower management level, either. Life is good.
Except that you’re wrong – the macro-succession crisis is coming for you, too. Continue reading
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