Whack-a-Mole

Hey. I got an idea. How's this approach for creative management... in an effort to reduce overhead costs, eliminate a vp position at the highest level of the org chart, and then encourage the ousted player to move down a notch to head up the only organization that they were in charge of before the hatchet-job, thereby causing the subsequently displaced director to look desperately within the organizations under their control, and identify who they wish to displace. Survival of the fittest - where "fit" describes one's basic desire to maintain employment - regardless of whether or not they are suitable to perform the tasks which they choose to assume. Sort of an anti-peter principle - "People rise to one level higher than that to which they are able to perform, and then create havoc as they self-servingly move back down the ladder."