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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 8903413" data-attributes="member: 9254">He was the president and set WotC' overall long term strategy, which darned sure should be more than 12 months into the future.If you don't believe me, here is the first listed responsibility of a corporate president from the first 3 Google hits<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">creates, communicates and implements the organization’s vision, mission and overall direction. (Delaware, inc)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Developing the corporate vision (upcounsel)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Long-range, strategic planning (chron)</li> </ul>The president of WotC should have been making 3-5 year plans at a bare minimum. Good presidents think more at a decade scale.  Vice presidents think a couple years a head, directors should be 1-2 years in the future, with managers at quarterly to annual time frame. I was a manager for an auditor IT team and I had to develop annual plans to coordinate development needs across the various government audits on the books.  The director I reported to had 2-3 year initiatives to manage the infrastructure. Their boss, a VP, spent time in Washington working with the govt agencies that had oversight of the programs in development that wouldn't go live for 18+ months and wouldn't be audited until 3-5 years after their go live which would then start the reconciliation processes that took another couple of quarters to resolve.   The Sr. VP was involved in multi-year acquisitions with decade-ish integration timeliness.This is pretty typical for companies in the $Billions/yr club.So we don't need a smoking gun from Chris Cocks beyond his resume.  He either wrote these plans up while WotC president in 2021 or earlier (which correspond to the early leaks) or he was a crap president who had no plans and abdicated responsibility to his VPs.Given that he was vetted by the Hasbro board and an interim Hasbro CEO, either they are TOTALLY incompetent or he had a multi-year game plan for WotC that the board & interim CEO considered sufficiently good work to justify extending that kind of vision across all Hasbro properties.</blockquote>

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