> now people will talk about improving processes, blameless postmortems, and how the individual is not at fault.

That makes me wonder why investors, particularly activist shareholders who drive the direction of boards, are never under scrutiny. Maybe their decisions to chase unrealistic growth, which forces the hands of CEOs and lesser executives, should also be reviewed. Maybe they should be somehow penalized or sanctioned for driving companies towards failure. Shouldn't a massive event like mass layoffs trigger a change in corporate boards? Why shouldn't responsibility go all the way to the top, why stop at the CEO level?