In introducing Penguin Random House ceo at a public forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair Wednesday, Frankfurt Academy head Holger Volland noted that they previously featured multiple heads of houses in a group. “Since Markus Dohle now equals five ceos,” Volland quipped, “we have replaced them with him.” Meanwhile, the always low-key and optimistic Dohle celebrated the completion of the merged company’s first 100 days together — which has been the opposite of a political leader’s first 100 days. “I wanted to make it the most boring merger in the history of corporations — because in essence what we do […]
