Imagine you are a shareholder of one of the largest businesses in America. The shareholders, at the urging of the board of directors, just installed a new CEO based on his promises to cut expenses, stabilize sales, reduce corporate debt and improve corporate efficiency.

After a few months, this CEO eliminated many vital company services, gutted business operations, and fired many of the experienced talent.

These moves had the effect of disrupting the corporation’s primary services, as well as damaging its reputation.

You find that this business is in turmoil, is generating staggering new debt, and rather than supporting competency, the CEO has removed experienced management to be replaced by loyalists who don’t have a clue as to how to manage their departments.

When the chief financial officer reported negative financial data to the directors, the CEO fired the CFO.

In addition, you had learned that the CEO had spent a ton of corporate cash on himself, like glamorizing his office with gold ornamentation, despite his promise to hold the line on spending.

In this imaginary setting, anyone criticizing the CEO had been immediately slandered and discounted as being a traitor to the corporation, and CEO allies moved to oust any dissenters.

Shareholders and........

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