Sobald die Gründer – Ingenieure, Tüftler, Programmierer und andere, die ein Produkt zum Leben erwecken – das Unternehmen verlassen, wird der Timer dieses Unternehmens auf 10 Jahre gesetzt. Danach sieht es nicht so rosig aus.
It takes ten years for the culture of a great company to fall apart once the CEO seat is given to someone without an engineering or product background. […] Boeing’s troubles […] really accelerated after 2005 when they installed their first CEO with no aerospace background. […] Intel did the same thing, and [in] 2005, they too installed their first CEO without an engineering background. […] Finally, Apple. Steve Jobs handed the reins to Tim Cook in 2011, but such was the strength of the product pipeline and culture that Jobs left behind, that it initially looked like Cook could break the spell. […] But now the ten-year curse is hitting Apple with an eerily familiar thud. […] The profits still gush from glories past, […] but the soul has left the machine.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Sieht so aus. Zumindest für stark technikorientierte Unternehmen.