Stivison — Are the Barbarians at the Gates?

As I read through recent copies of Printing Impressions' Top Management News, I became unsettled. Amid the upbeat declarations of new contracts and plant expansions, there seem to be more reports of turmoil in the boardrooms and executive suites of many mid- and giant-size printers. We're seeing turnover among CEOs at an unprecedented rate. And while "golden parachutes" may protect individual CEOs from personal catastrophe, there is often nothing to buffer the folks on the shop floor from the upheaval and uncertainly that follow top-level changes.