Motive could be one of the items below.
INTK $$$$
Last year, I became aware that my operations team and finance team were not taking care of business as it should be taken care of. We had problems.
I dropped all R&D projects that I was working on, my primary area of responsibility since the inception of the company in 2004, and began focusing on the basics.
1) I unloaded non-performing and underperforming personnel, which also dramatically reduced overhead as they were expensive people and that also allowed me to reduce office space, health insurance costs, etc, etc.