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&lt;p&gt;Price of Mine That Bird in a mink Snuggie watching premium NFL? $4.8 million. Price NBC will pay for screwing Conan? Some $45 million. Future losses to NBC&#39;s reputation? For now, priceless, but undoubtedly there will be a price to pay. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/nnewman/folders/Jing/media/f262e967-7daa-4fec-8ce1-16e973f7ee74/2010-01-25_1415.png&quot; width=&quot;298&quot; height=&quot;215&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Conan/Leno&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The  to some management consultants to gauge their reactions to the situation. NBC made two mistakes in reshuffling its late-night lineup, they said: It made a long-term promotion promise to Conan in order to retain him, and it named a successor too far in advance. For the former argument, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Yale&#39;s School of Management notes that organizations stand to benefit when top talent leaves to get jobs elsewhere, gaining a reputation as &quot;a breeding ground for stars&quot; and, ultimately, more talent in the future. And as for the long timeline in naming a successor to &lt;i&gt;The Tonight Show&lt;/i&gt;, organizational psychologist Ben Dattner says, &quot;There&#39;s a Goldilocks time frame for a succession: If it&#39;s too short, people don&#39;t have enough time to get acclimated. If it&#39;s too long, the world can change.&quot; The consultants point to examples of corporations that exhibited these important management lessons: CEOs leaving GE to pursue top jobs at other companies, and Xerox&#39;s recent CEO transition. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBC defends its decisions, claiming &quot;a responsibility to protect our franchises.&quot; And truthfully, whether or not NBC&#39;s situation is analogous to the consultants&#39; examples is a moot point at this juncture. What is certain is that it would have behooved the organization to heed some solid management advice before turning their prime time lineup into a prime time disaster. &lt;p&gt;

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