Johnson's failure to change the staid conservative JC Penney raises some interesting questions:How much of someone's success is attributable to the person or the company they’ve worked at?
Or put another way, when you recruit a thoroughbred star, are you betting on the jockey or the horse?
While employers continue to make the same mistakes, hiring a new Chief Executive is fraught with difficulties, not least of which is the possibility of being dazzled by the bright lights of the candidate's last employer's successes.
Author Matt Connaire
