>>92193953That's pretty much what happened in 90s with Tom Kalinske when he was still CEO of Sega of America.
He was called in for a meeting with Sega of Japan's CEOs concerning the launch of Sega Mega Drive/Genesis on the western market. He proposed a very aggressive marketing campaign to compete against Nintendo, and while SoJ wanted to bundle Altered Beast with Genesis for the western market launch, he proposed they bundle Sonic The Hedgehog instead. While they were skeptical about it, they followed his advice, and as a result, Genesis' launch was a huge success, colliding head-on with SNES on the market and proving itself as a worthy competitor.
But do you think SoJ's CEOs were thankful for Kalinske's input? Big fat -nope-. Instead, they got butthurt that some "uppity foreigner" upstaged them and they proceeded to ignore any further input from him, while antagonizing him in a passive-agressive manner by basically stripping him of any executive power. It reached it's climax when they basically dropped Sega Saturn on his lap and went "you figure out what to do with it. Oh yeah, and we'll be launching it sooner than scheduled." He was literally forced to resign from the company.
Though to be honest, Sega's owner later offered him to come working for his other company.
In short, yes, there always seemed to be some bitter resentment which caused Sega of Japan to make some pretty retarded decisions.
