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> A CEO leaving a company can immediacy lead to serous consequences

Is it something that has been study or observed? Most company are resilient enough to handle the leaving of an individual, being a Chief or not. The opposite would be a flag for an instable company.

Far tangent exemple: Belgium without government.

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I dont know, transitions can easily cost many millions of dollars of swirl when our director changes. They only lead 100 people, in a small part of a large company but we spin up and cancel projects with 250 million dollar budgets. Change in leadership and direction is expensive. Bad leadership and direction is expensive too. greenlighting one more/less wasteful project pays for many years of CEO salary.

I’m looking at this from a casual stock market perspective. If I came to know the CEO of the company is unhappy and planning to leave, surely I expect the stock prices to take a hit. And the recovery will mostly depend on their successor and is altogether an expensive exercise

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