Al Dunlap hired as the CEO of Scott Paper loved to loudly beat his own chest boasting about personal accomplishment putting numbers over people
He personally accrued $100 million for 603 days of work by slashing the workforce , cutting R&D budget to half and putting company on growth steroids in preparation for sale
Presence of such a person with gargantuan personal ego contributes to personal demise or continued mediocrity of a company
Adopted from the book Good to Great
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