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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
You should have to do a great job -- but only at those things which are reasonably within your control. Fire the coach for having injured players play? Sure. Fire the coach because he had an above-average number of injuries this year, and other teams less? No.
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The missteps of B&N execs over the last few years were their own. No one else was walking in their shoes. They had complete control over their direction. And your sports analogy in this particular instance is not relevant. There is no evidence that their Nook operations were short-handed the last few years or that some virulent flu swept through their staff making them incapable of making smart product and marketing decisions.
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I'm not convinced of that. I am convinced that internet pressure to fire people more often is not the way to a more prosperous, much less humane, society.
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What internet pressure? The pressure is coming mainly from the shareholders, investors and partners like Microsoft, and Wall Street. We are merely a few interested consumers talking on a forum.
--Pat