"The story goes that every day, Shahryar the king would marry a new virgin and every day he would send yesterday's wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his very first wife had been unfaithful to him. He had killed one thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the Vizier’s daughter. But she was able to captivate the King each night by telling a wonderful story, but leaving it unfinished until the next night. This way, the King spared her life one night at a time so he could hear the end of the story, and then she would start the next leaving it unfinished.

Does that sound familiar? At predetermined intervals, usually each month or each quarter, the CEO must report progress against set targets and tell a great story that will hold the attention of the shareholders. If targets are met or exceeded, the CEO remains employed. If they are not, the CEO’s continued employment is jeopardized.  Too many intervals with targets that are not met and our CEO is let go and a new one hired.
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