Management by betraying

If a marketing head runs down a company's product in order to make it look like he is making the product work, in spite of the product actually being very strong, what should the CEO do? Believe him or go out and check for himself. What if others in the organization dispute the claim. Should the still believe the marketing head and give higher budgets?

When a boss only listens to one person in the organization and that person is only intent on gathering more and more power, and hence will not allow any good idea from others to be implemented unless it is for his division - would you classify the boss as a fool or as a focused target oriented person (target being to get rid of others)

Imagine A is the head of a vertical with two offices and is based out of place X and rarely travels to Y (the other office). But he meets his targets and in the last performance review three months ago, was rated excellent by the CEO to whom he reports.

Then the CEO travels to Y and B, the head of another vertical that is based in Y complains saying she is doing all A's work in Y because A hardly travels here.

The CEO comes back and discuss what to do.

Take a shot at what needs to be done and I will tell you what actually happened.