Walmart and Target are both getting new CEOs—one succession plan has gone smoother than the other | Fortune

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Good morning. This week, a pair of earnings reports—those of Walmart and Target—offer up a reminder of how tricky CEO succession planning can be. Both retailers’ CEOs—Walmart’s Doug McMillon and Target’s Brian Cornell—started in 2014 and are leaving in February, handing their companies off to lieutenants who are company lifers. But that’s where the succession similarities end.