The departure from IBM Corp of William Grabe is being seen as confirmation that chairman John Akers is clearing out an entire layer and generation of top managers at the company, and that when he comes to baptise a successor, it will be someone in the 40-to-50 age range: headhunters contacted by the Wall Street Journal report a flood of high-level IBM curricula vitae resumes – from people that have got the message that they have no future with the company, and the departure of at least one more big name is said to be imminent; Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow – see page 2.
