No, the worst CEOs are the ones who turned companies with huge potential into companies that no one has heard anything interesting from in a while. You know, li

No, the worst CEOs are the ones who turned companies with huge potential into companies that no one has heard anything interesting from in a while. You know, like the guys listed in the article. As CEOs go, it's not a failure until you lost big and you're not exceptionally bad without having made some really mindbogglingly stupid decisions. A nobody CEO in some garage running his insignificant ragtag shop into the ground just isn't the same as someone who gets handed the reins of a huge empire with endless opportunities and then manages to utterly kill it. This requires not only incompetence but also a very active role and great creativity in the destruction of something that had been great once.