My interpretation is one of “good cop bad cop”. Something similar happened to my employer but it was some activist investor demanding changes that sounded simi

My interpretation is one of “good cop bad cop”. Something similar happened to my employer but it was some activist investor demanding changes that sounded similar to what the company had been rumored to be wanting to do (but were difficult/unpopular). Then within a month the current CEO is fired and a new CEO, who was from the outside and I know had been courted for a while, joins, and begins implementing many of those rumored plans.