As a CEO, if your team sets up a company to succeed, the payoff is likely not for the next decade. You're setting up some other executive's payday. If you burn

As a CEO, if your team sets up a company to succeed, the payoff is likely not for the next decade. You're setting up some other executive's payday. If you burn the co's reputation to get your payday, probably nobody really notices and is likely enough for there to be no real consequences to management until after you leave. The problem you paid yourself with is someone else's to solve. Anyone suggesting there's an easy answer to that is likely full of it. How expert, competent and interested are the board of directors? How do you know? Some people look and sound plausible and convincing but aren't. Credentials are not much guide, all the board candidates have them including the total self-serving Muppets. Even noting who was great 10 years ago might not care much anymore. Boeing stock price is up more than 1% on the last day of trading. Not as much as Lockheed and Raytheon.