728 Capital Punishment Poisoning has always been held to be the most cowardly way of killing. To know the management of a business, to have a good estimation of its ethos, is important for its shareholders.
Bad management can stifle the chances for success of a good product.
A sound business can flourish under incompetent management. In such a case it's best to think of a business, from a shareholder's point of view, as a black box into the top of which which one dollar of capital is dropped, and a dollar and a quarter of value tumbles out of the bottom. Some profits, like laws and sausages, it is best not to know how they be made.