Monday, February 8, 2010

Royalty cannot fail.

Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, who brokered the investment bank's controversial sale to Bank of America, is taking over as chairman and CEO of CIT Group

The US is a big country without discernible shortage of CEOs. Yet, CIT has chosen Thain who clearly failed on the job at Merrill. It's probably because our CEO class is similar to royalty; the queen of England never fails and a CEO may be fired, asked to resign, but unless she/he become a felon she/he will always get another important CEO job. No wonder that we became serfs.

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