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In the next decade, I think the frequency of co-CEOing, or a strong CxO/CyO founder-pair will increase and become a more effective pattern than single-CEOing. It used to be viewed as a bad compromise pattern, often investor imposed, but there’s more real reasons now. Yin-yang ftw
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Charismatic single-CEO lasted 40y (1980-2020) starting with Welch and partly reflected the single dominant force of neoliberalism that had only one right way to ride it. Before that 1940-80 was corporatist “Chairman and Managing Director” crony-consensus+servant-leader type.
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The nice thing about a true pair is you can embody a central paradox. In the past (Jobs/Wozniak, Gates/Allen, Page/Brin…) one ended up dominant fairly soon, in a few years. I suspect pairs will be stable longer and longer because paradoxes in the environment are lasting longer.
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