He's a former mid-level executive who's now in charge of a huge corporation his once, more intelligent, maverick yet adaptable boss created but once he's retired or moved on, he doesn't know, recognize, or understand the rhetoric, feel, multiple nuances of the extremely complex algorithms his boss used to be so successful and so he brings in another CFO thats not as cerebral or instinctive as previous one but believes if he follows enough of his old boss tactics and strategies in business, eventually it'll click for him.