Legacy of late Volkswagen colossus Piech lives on
How is that the most outstanding corporate leaders are so frequently the most flawed? Steve Jobs’s fanatical obsession with the user experience turned Apple into one of the world’s most valuable companies. But there’s no shortage of tales about him being mean and rude.
Former Volkswagen chairman and chief executive Ferdinand Piech, who has died aged 82, embodied many of the same contradictions. For better or worse, we are unlikely to see his sort run a public company again.
