The first rule of trading: never get married to a position. That includes consolidated equity ownership of corporations that you have outsized controlled over.

The first rule of trading: never get married to a position. That includes consolidated equity ownership of corporations that you have outsized controlled over. Anyone that derives their confidence from your perpetual participation is playing by a completely different and ineffective set of rules. Investors that need constant placating need to grow thicker skin or get out of the market, employee opinions about the executive's ongoing participation have never mattered they aren't part of the conversation.