This is a collection post on failed Talent Management and Succession Planning and what huge impact it had. Please share if you have other interesting cases.
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1) John Patterson (NCR) fired Thomas Watson who than founded IBM.
Market Value today: NCR 1.69 billion USD versus IBM: 139,72 billion USD.
2) John Sculley (Ex-Apple) fired Steve Jobs. A few years later Apple almost went bankrupt .
Market Value of Apple today: 118,19 billion
Tags: Apple, IBM, John Patterson, John Sculley, NCR, Steve Jobs, Succession Planning, talent management, Thomas Watson
