Although I cannot recall any Road Runner episode specifically about portfolio management, I have a notion of how the luckless predator might have fared.
The spate of shareholder challenges to management teams and strategies has dispelled any notion that the coming consolidation of the sector will be a collegial affair in which like-minded enterprises reshape their portfolios.
"We question the typical recipe game -- the notion that there is one formula for success such as put out by traditional management research, " says Poulfelt.
But even -- I remember sitting in that meeting and even with -- the notion was even if you give -- if you make some of the required management changes and give them a lifeline, it was still a 51-49 proposition.