In 2021, following her husband's sudden death, Dr Mona Tawfik assumed the chairpersonship of the Egyptian healthcare institution he had founded.

Angela Ahrendts became CEO of Burberry on 1 July 2006, inheriting a business that was famous, profitable, and structurally scattered.

Lagarde walked into the office on her first day as Managing Director of the IMF forty-eight days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn had resigned in scandal.

Mulally joined Ford when the company was losing seventeen billion dollars a year and heading toward bankruptcy.

The company hired for the organisation they hoped to become rather than the one they actually were — complex roles, management layers, heavy process, all bolted on early.