He was just a symptom of the disease that took hold at Ferring; a management structure that sold its luck as competence, and filled its ranks with lackies, who pursued a succeed at all costs mindset of a bunch of bored primates in an empty room. And instead of making changes, doubling down on these people to deny they hired the wrong people, only to promote the failures into non effective positions to support these individuals title trophy pursuits while turnover rates of high performing individuals increased inverse to the quality and quantity of the talent that replaced them.
All wrapped in an HR approved boxed, tied with bow and embellished with the corporate equity index score.