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Which kind of affirms the grandparent poster's point. Corporate turnarounds like Jobs's return to Apple are one in a million.

If Jobs hadn't been available, who could have saved Apple in 1997? I can't imagine a non-founder CEO up to the task.

Nokia had been fatally wounded by the short-sighted strategy of Elop's predecessors. He took a risk -- jumped off the famous "burning platform" and drowned. But the platform was already going down in flames.



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