By the looks of it, as long as he continues to reach his numbers he'll have things the way he wants it. Not to say that he got out Scott-free, but in this case he at least gave himself control over his own destiny.

It was the price he paid to get the company where it was that he was in that bind (a good bind to be in, if you ask me), and the best move he could have made to keep the company and the destiny of the culture in his hands.

(Edit: An argument against this case would be Tivoli. It was bought out by IBM and slowly the cultures merged.)