WP: Job Security Wanes in Executive Suites

Professor Constance E. Helfat via The Washington Post about the high CEO turnover making chief-executive jobs less attractive:

"If you ask CEOs to take the risk of having to resign in a fairly public manner . . . people might be less willing to take the job and want higher compensation, which means you shrink the pool," said Constance E. Helfat, a strategy professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business who studies chief-executive turnover.

Source: The Washington Post by Brooke A. Masters May 18, 2006