Can someone please bring this to the awareness of IBM's BOD, please?
*Some CEOs Mr. George speaks with, he said, are asking themselves “How much time do I have?”
Corporate boards increasingly reply: Not much.
“In boardrooms, sentimentality is officially dead,” said Constantine Alexandrakis, head of the U.S. for recruiting firm Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.
Such pressures aren’t just forcing boards to jettison CEOs. Donald Hambrick, a professor of management at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, said he suspected some corporate chiefs are voluntarily hastening their retirements.*
[Article isn't behind the paywall, so no need to quote here]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-angst-of-endangered-ceos-how-much-time-do-i-have-1499247002