a lot depends on how you do it. The time scale that you negotiate to achieve with, either with your board or with your stockholders as opposed to with your manager, goes a long way toward determining success or failure.To achieve some of those things in terms of internal human scale often requires a longer commitment than might be available in terms of an external financial scale.There is probably an underlying sentiment that says, satisfy those external audiences and see if you can't sit on top of the internal ones ... and,yes,if these guys don't like it,presumably there are others that are prepared to operate within that kind of a changed culture.
But I believe that,in parker's instance,they probably put an impossible time scale on themselves to achieve the desired degree of change in acceptable human terms without pricipitating unnecessary turnover. you see,a certain amount of turnover is not only to be expected but is probably necessary because the kinds of values and skills that you,ve looked for and rewarded in the truly decentralized