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He hasn't failed yet. He has pursued a risky plan to reinvent Nokia, one that might yet work out.



How many new CEOs get more than 1-2 quarters before they're judged? Why is Elop treated differently? Over 4 quarters of disastrous results after an equally disastrous abandonment of his suppliers customers and products.

Elop can legitimately be described as a disastrous CEO and should have been dismissed as soon as he uttered "burning platform". Even the similarly disastrous Apotheker who manned HP got less than a year and wasn't as bad by the numbers or employee sentiment.




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