The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, Nov. 21, edition that the news of Sam Altman's sudden firing from OpenAI (and his move to Microsoft) should not have caught anyone by surprise. The Globe's guest columnist Jordan Jakobs writes that the tensions at the board level that resulted in Mr. Altman's ouster reflect a misalignment between the organization's stated mission and the subsequent commercial execution that created ChatGPT and a company worth tens of billions of dollars. OpenAI's mission, as defined by its charter, is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) and to ensure it "benefits all of humanity." It is not a mission that can be easily reconciled with commercializing AI products. The tension that led to Mr. Altman's unexpected departure was a culmination of inherent misalignment. The conflict underscores the challenge faced by companies striving to align their mission with their execution -- a challenge not unique to OpenAI. We may see similar upheavals at companies in which inconsistencies between the original mission and the practical execution create cracks within groups in which individuals joined for different purposes. Those cracks may, over time, widen into chasms.