By Lane F. Cooper
If the story of Grant Thornton LLP were ever produced for television, the departure of the consultancy's CEO late last year would likely be remembered as the Adrian Smith episode — a label honoring the very consultant who exited the Chicago-based consultancy less than a year after he arrived from Andersen Consulting.
After an apparent clash of cultures — GT executives were quoted as being concerned with the Andersen veteran's "corporate-like" approach — Smith headed for the door. Like a script of a popular miniseries, Grant Thornton's tale supplies its own moral message: Let Andersen be Andersen and Grant Thornton be Grant Thornton.
Enter Smith's replacement, Domenick Esposito — the new home-grown chief executive referred to affectionately by GT kinfolk as "Dom." Promoted from within the organization, Esposito, 51, is celebrating 20 years with the firm. He joined GT in 1979 as an audit manager and was admitted into the partnership in 1981, becoming Northeast area managing partner in 1995. His mission is clearly to grow the consultancy, and at GT that means only two things
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