What? An excuse in the unsafe harbour?
It was Thailand.
No, wait. We expected an order in q1, but now by 1 July.
No, wait...
It just seems the CEO cannot forecast, but cannot resist the fun of it all the same.
Is it, perhaps, because forecasting is the key tool he uses to manipulate investors' expectations?
And so we discover that the corollary of misleading forecasting is frequent excuse-making. Isn't that right?