The timing is likely related to the business cycle. Why communicate next year's plans to people it doesn't involve? I can't say why the plans wouldn't involve

The timing is likely related to the business cycle. Why communicate next year's plans to people it doesn't involve? I can't say why the plans wouldn't involve him in some way. I don't speculate based on the content of a blog post, and it proves prudent not to believe rationalizations so close relatively to the event. If he didn't see it coming, something was wrong, right?