Professor Joseph Grundfest weighs in on the attributes required of the person who will take over as CEO of Survey Monkey following the death of Dave Goldberg. 

On the first day back to work after the death of Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey, employees at the Silicon Valley company gathered to mourn.

“Let’s be upfront,” Bennett Porter, the head of marketing communications, said at the hastily called companywide meeting. “This is going to hurt. Everyone is going to cry. It is only the start.”

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Joseph A. Grundfest, a corporate governance specialist at Stanford Law School, warned against trying to find another version of Mr. Goldberg.

“Tim Cook can’t be Steve Jobs, and Jobs didn’t want him to be,” when Mr. Cook became chief of Apple, Mr. Grundfest said. “Whoever becomes C.E.O. can’t be David Goldberg, and shouldn’t try to be. That person needs to try and figure out what SurveyMonkey was succeeding at, and try to maintain the essence of Goldberg’s strategy in their own way.”