Nidec saga points to succession problem for Japan's maverick CEOs

Decades of success makes clean breaks difficult for celebrated chiefs

20221005 Nidec handshake

Nidec Chairman and CEO Shigenobu Nagamori, right, shakes hands with newly recruited right-hand man Jun Seki in February 2020.

TAKUMI ANZAI, Nikkei senior writer

TOKYO -- It is difficult to work with a charismatic CEO. This is a lesson that deputies often learn after spending years with rags-to-riches entrepreneurs.

Alvy Ray Smith, who co-founded the computer animation studio Pixar with financing from Steve Jobs, knows this firsthand. 

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