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Multinational corporations have adopted the CEO firing as a customary response to major scandal. It lets them publicly demonstrate that they're changing, while simply replacing the CEO with a near-equivalent.



There is a saying in the UK "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss" (it's also a lyric in the Who song "Won't get fooled again").

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-12-02/


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