That doesn't make any sense if you are speaking for the broad number of shareholders. If you are speaking of a small group, that is able to steer a publically traded company like Nokia (a very small minority owner can run a big company like Nokia, if all the other owners are dispersed widely), that is still iffy.

Why would you want a CEO to come and scale down your company by saying your existing products suck, so you're going to stop selling them. Only to replace them by introducting new products that will not sell in the first place, and in the second place will not be available on the market for nearly another year.

I think more of what's happening there is that they hired the goon as a CEO, and are ever since driving themselves harder and harder into a spiral of "our WP strategy is not working because we haven't been committed enough" mentality, which will only end with a total unintended (but foreseeable) collapse of Nokia.

RIP. My N900 was the last of many Nokia devices I bought. It's Android, or Tizen, now baby.