September seems to have cast a spell in the C-suite. Chairman Bill Ford hires a new CEO from Boeing to run the auto giant. An outsider no less! Viacom’s chairman Sumner Redstone ousts CEO Tom Freston after nine months. Revelations that the HP board sought records of board member telephone calls to identify a leaker. [Interesting that when I typed HP board into Google nothing showed up about the front page story in today’s WSJ about the unusual story. Most surprising. The story seems buried. How does that happen?]
As I have written before, it looks like this quarter is shaping up to be a doozy. It’s only Wednesday and the summer just barely ended. Chaos in the corner office is the theme.
