Their current CEO is one of those generic executive types with a background selling snacks, sporting supplies, and private equity investments. His prior game industry experience was running Electronic Arts so well that the board forced him to resign. This does not sound like the path to anything other than short-term “number go up” management.
I don’t disagree but in this day and age, this kind of uninspired management is all most corporations care for.
The days that, say, a company whose main bread and butter is engineering is seeking out an engineer to lead their company are well and well and true behind us.
Nowadays most companies are looking for a “number go up” guy.
Definitely: the kind of people on corporate boards are definitely looking for candidates like themselves. The rest of us should factor that in to decisions and avoid being dependent on companies with warning signs like this unless it’s something easily replaced.
