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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 5347199" data-attributes="member: 725">Like I mentioned previously, I worked at a banking institution, a wholly owned independent subsidiary of a larger banking institution. And while in principle the CEO made the big decisions (based on targets provided by the main office), in practice things weren't always that clear cut, if the CEO wanted to keep his position he better listen when his bosses wanted something. Also, you'll see folks from the main office getting positions of power within the subsidiary.Let us look at WotC a division of Hasbro, imho in name only WotC. Greg Leeds became WotC CEO in 2008, the seven years previously he was the head of Hasbro's international marketing. So that is Hasbro right at the head of WotC, my best guess is that there's more Hasbro personnel in WotC (everyone at WotC is part of Hasbro, but you know what I mean).Might not seem like a lot to most folks but there is a big difference between folks who come from a large corporation and folks that work in a small corporation. The CEO has the Hasbro mentality otherwise he wouldn't have gotten the position imho.It's all just tealeaf predictions, but yours and mine, mostly because we don't have any actual numbers at our fingers. You could be right, I could be right. I only give my view based on my experiences with corps, big changes in products only happen when there's no choice but to make those changes. That motivation is usually motivated by the bottom line, profit. And let's not forget the impressions the folks that actually worked at WotC left regarding management decisions and culture. I remember some startling revelations about how 3E FR source books fared and why that changed/stopped.</blockquote>

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