Imagine you’re the director of a company faced with a shareholder revolt. They’re demanding the head of your CEO—a CEO who had previously turned around your company, but who recently has been picking fights. You worry that his abusive nature is endangering the corporate future, but are indebted to him for the past. What do you do? Do you fire the CEO? Rein him in? Ignore the owners and hope the firestorm dies down?
