Companies where powerful executives set their successors up for failure or choose weak successors are doomed for failure

Stanley Gault the top executive in once iconic Rubbermaid did not want to leave behind a company that would be great without him

His chosen successor lasted just a year and eventually Rubbermaid was acquired by Newell

Adopted from Jim Collins book Good to Great

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