Boards are often composed of failed or failing CEOs, celebrities, and others with questionable management skills. Let's say you are on the board of Apple and y

Boards are often composed of failed or failing CEOs, celebrities, and others with questionable management skills. Let's say you are on the board of Apple and you are looking at Tim Cook's retirement. Would you look at a Senior VP from Microsoft? An Associate COO of Intel? The former CTO of Ford Motors? A department head at Via? Ryan Reynolds? The CFO of Apple? The person who was Jim Keller's coworker at Harris and DEC, and worked two levels below Jim Keller at AMD and SiByte? Can you or anybody put in writing what qualities a prospective CEO of Apple should possess that would differentiate one of these candidates above the others? Let's say you are Al Gore or Al Gorsky. How do you decide who to hire?