Well-known business professional Jeffery Whippo believes that a lot of the failures that Kmart witnessed during its battle with Wal-Mart were due to the attitude of their CEO, Joseph Antonini. He describes how Antonini, having climbed through the Kmart ranks to his position of CEO felt that he had all of the answers. The CEO made it a point to not hire from outside of Kmart for management level positions because he did not want anyone coming into the company and challenging his decisions.