Comment by nashashmi

The top level comments here question his judgement, are incredulous to the 49 days of unraveling, and wonder what relation his emergency surgery had to the fail of launch.

I also wonder how it was possible that the product lacked polish, was priced at XX, lacked an ecosystem, and he was not there to fix any of this in the months that led up to the launch which was immediately after his surgery.

But my insight into his words tells me the following:

1. leadership changed

2. stewardship was out-of-service for 8 weeks

3. new leadership worked on a different vision.

4. new leadership made immediate decisions.

5. new leadership canceled the product because it did not have strong advocacy and stewardship of the product.

6. new leadership did not walk back their cancelation once stewardship returned.

7. momentum for improving the product collapsed.

8. trust for hp collapsed.

9. steward blames leadership! for cancelling the product. talks trash about Leo.

What are the lessons here for this perfect storm? Don't have just one steward.