GemDeveloper has certainly nailed it. After a working life of 32 years across a wide range of industries - the inspirational ones are 1 in 100 and that's a maximum. Which type WW is will have been decided by the Board and it is they who will decide whether he has done the job they hired him to do.
One of the very few MDs that admitted his job was 'hatchet man', to turn a company around was Sir Michael Edwardes. He said that, when he had done his job, he had to leave because he was not the right man to then lead a company forward. Many who start a company do not realise this and try to take the company from start up to 'plc'. One who knows that he is not is Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
We'll have to wait and see where WW is on the scale.
Last edited by PAXboy; 27th April 2010 at 18:58.
Reason: Correcting typo: I have not been working since the age of 1... no matter what it feels like!