Originally Posted by jjbiv

Joanna delivered the operation the company had the resources to run. Poor results aren't always indicative of a poor leader (I don't have a personal opinion or knowledge of her specifically). Sometimes a poor outcome is what the leader is asked to deliver (in the form of being asked to optimize a different factor, like cost or revenue). If the board didn't like the results she was delivering, she would have been gone a long time ago and definitely not promoted.