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The Great Corporate Reinvention: 2026's CEO Turnaround Playbooks
From Air India's high-stakes CEO swap to Endeavour's painful streamlining, 2026's corporate reinventions reveal the new rules for saving a sinking ship.

The Signal
This week, Air India appointed Tewolde Gebremariam — the man who turned Ethiopian Airlines from a scrappy regional carrier into Africa's largest and most profitable airline group — as its new CEO and Managing Director. He replaces Campbell Wilson, who had been shepherding Air India through its post-Tata-return transformation since 2022. The appointment came with a blunt signal from Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran: the airline is now entering a "critical execution and...
CEO turnaround
Air India
corporate reinvention
leadership
business strategy
Tewolde Gebremariam
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