Back in July, I placed Jeffrey Peek, CEO of troubled business lender CIT, on the CEO Watch list. Early today news came out that Peek, Chairman and CEO, would resign his position at the end of the year. Too often these days top executi
ve changes take place very late in the game. Let’s see if CIT can find a way out of its troubles and bring in a leader that can help its circumstances. According to a story by Alan Rappeport for the Financial Times,
Peek’s resignation comes a little more than a month after CIT extended his contract by another year, signaling that he would lead the company through its restructuring. In his new contract, which was set to expire in September 2010, Mr Peek was prohibited from any compensation not permitted under the terms of the government’s troubled asset relief programme and lost the privilege of using the corporat
e aircraft.
Hopefully more companies will take a cue from CIT’s troubles and set in place succession plans and at a minimum, make management decisions more quickly when the circumstances require changes.
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