It might appear to be a lack of planning, but another way to look at it, is these companies are running at full throttle in a vehicle sense, and the CEO and others have taken their foot off the throttle to negotiate a bend.
>How is it amazing to do what the board wants all the time?
I've seen stats delivered to management and the board, and I've seen the board tell management to reverse their actions within minutes of those stats being delivered at shortly after 6am.
Keeping a currently work-to-rule, minimum-productivity workforce happy when it affects the business in other ways is important to the board.
> If a companies revenue is down the CEO's decisions should be analzyed to see if his actions contributed to it and perhaps lose his job if so.
Look at the UK Prime Minister situation, 3 PM's in a year. Its an interesting lesson for the whole world if you consider the British PM to be a CEO of a country.
Look for the parallels and whose Authority do you trust?
Do you find pieces of paper from a University to be an interesting Authority object? Do you find money to be an interesting Authority object?
Do you find the internet, regardless of website to be an intelligent training exercise? Do you find life and society is one giant over populated prison?