How corporate leaders should deal with intimations of mortality

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Death and disease are the last corporate taboos, as the passing of Mr Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, reveals.

Mr Marchionne was a towering figure, architect of the turnaround of not one, but two legendary carmakers. So his sudden death last month, aged 66, fuelled wild speculation about what had happened.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 07, 2018, with the headline How corporate leaders should deal with intimations of mortality. Subscribe