Re:Moral of the story.... (Score 1)

Great points! You would think that a CEO should have an actual interest in their company's products. Car people running car companies, tech people running tech companies, publishing people running publishing companies, etc. It would seem obvious. It's just as obvious that this isn't the way it's done. I have a friend who teaches business and negotiation at a very well known east coast university. From him I learned that CEOs, or any executive for that matter, were viewed as interchangable. That is, any CEO/Exectuive (with an MBA mind you) should be able to do the job of any other CEO/Exectuive regardless of the product or field. They are swappable cogs, nothing more. Once I understood this the actions of a lot of companies made more sense.