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IKEA’s Success Can’t Be Attributed to One Charismatic Leader

Harvard Business Review

During my conversations with CEOs, it always comes to a point where they say: “I want to leave a legacy.” ” Any CEO would be satisfied with the business legacy left by Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who died last weekend. Some were planned, but many were unplanned. Quite the contrary.