On New Year's Day, as many people wake up to football, black-eyed peas and hangovers, Rex Tillerson will wake up to running the world's largest company.

.."What can you do to improve a company that's already at a record level of everything?" asked Fadel Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer. "It's not a fixer-upper company."

And relying on his predecessor's teaching may not even work in the new energy world. Tillerson might have to invent a new style to deal with global change.

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