Tech Titans We Will Miss and Ones Better Off Dismissed

When things are going great, people will praise even a committee of so-called leaders. It really doesn’t matter who’s in charge. But when challenges arise, there can be only one who steps up and carries the company on his or her shoulders. This is where RIM’s Co-CEO structure has failed. Risk-taking. Accountability. Consequence. You can’t divvy them up. Otherwise, it’s just a sitcom.

CEO Teardown: BlackBerry-Maker RIM’s Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie

It’s a pretty good bet Hewlett-Packard misses Hurd these days. Last summer, Hurd resigned as HP CEO following an investigation into a claim of sexual harassment (which found he hadn’t actually violated sexual harassment policy) and falsified expense reports. HP hired Leo Apotheker, and things have gone down hill. Couldn’t Hurd have blamed it all on damn autocorrect?

Mark Hurd: a Look Back At His HP Tenure

The Best of ‘Damn You, Autocorrect’