Define success. I watched Triumph of the Nerds last night that somebody linked to here at hn. Sculley led Apple to 10x sales increase and left the company with $2 billion in cash and $200 million of debt. Sounds like a success to me, considering Macintosh was not a sales success people think it was (from the horses mouth from the documentary).

Gil Amelio on the other hand... but at least he brought (bought) Jobs back into Apple, who ousted him soon afterwards.

Somewhat in his defense, he does admit to "inexperience" and "wishing he had a mentor" when he was at Apple. Not that it means anyone should take his advice now.