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The perils of Jeffrey Immelt and his ilk

GE former CEO finds changing course is a lot harder than running the company; so is weathering investor impatience The news of Jeff Immelt’s replacement as CEO got me thinking about these dark days for CEOs. Technology CEOs are dealing with The Chasm, a big one. The growing capabilities of the cloud to compute, interpret, analyze, and communicate could well eliminate ...

Kathleen Maher

GE former CEO finds changing course is a lot harder than running the company; so is weathering investor impatience The news of Jeff Immelt’s replacement as CEO got me thinking about these dark days for CEOs. Technology CEOs are dealing with The Chasm, a big one. The growing capabilities of the cloud to compute, interpret, analyze, and communicate could well eliminate the tangle of machines and wires that we use to connect to information. The cloud demands and enables a monumental shift of resources. So what's a poor billionaire CEO to do? Some are standing on the precipice, others, like Immelt
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