RENAULT-NISSAN WILL NEED TO REPLACE ITS CEO ONE DAY, TROUBLE IS, THEY DON'T MAKE THAT PART ANYMORE

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Can a corporation literally become unmanageable? That's a question that some are starting to raise about Renault-Nissan. Its CEO, Carlos Ghosn, who has done a brilliant job creating this auto giant, has consolidated nis power by constructing what's arguably the most complicated management structure anywhere outside the Vatican-one so convoluted that he may well be the only person in the world capable of running it. Who else oversees two Fortune Global 500 companies, never mind ones separated by a 12-hour flight and language barriers? He holds the chairman and CEO titles at both Nissan, with headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, and Renault in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Says Michael Useem, a Wharton professor who has studied the companies: "For any other person, the two-CEO thing would be preposterous."