This is quite tragic if it is true. Entrenched lower management needs to comprehend why Stringer is the CEO in the first place. Why Sony actually hired a CEO outside of the Japanese ranks, and the answer is Stringer is very good at what he does. How Sony had done things for years was not good for the company, for its consumers, or for its investors.
Stringer was brought on board to beat the company into shape. What did they think this meant. It is the toughest kind of love, and you just have to grin and bear it as you pay for the excesses of the past. Tragic though it is it is hardly Stringers fault that Sony got fat, soft, and over indulgent.
We talk on this all the time in these forums. How reckless Sony has been in business. I respect Stringer during this console war he said two things that show an acute understanding of the situation that the previous management obviously lacked. He argued that the format war should have been averted, and that Sony should not be involved in building and designing processors.
Both cost Sony dearly. Had a format compromise been reached Sony wouldn't have had to churn ungodly amounts of money into winning. They may not have made as much, but they wouldn't have risked anything. Finally being an end product supplier is preferable to being the sub component manufacturer. At the tail end you can always go with the winner. Whereas they lost on both ends. Better to lose on one thing rather then double your losses by being pot committed.
Had Stringer been on board just a few years sooner. Sony could have saved itself five or six billion dollars in losses. Brought on by overly aggressive management.
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