FORTUNE: Brian Niccol may well be the messiah Starbucks—and Howard Schultz—have been looking for

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discusses how the latest Starbucks CEO shakeup came about, what went wrong for the departing Laxman Narasimhan at Starbucks, and why Brian Niccol is the right person for this turnaround job in FORTUNE.