It soundds like the board is talking to some major customers and recently 'retired' executives independently to try to figure out what is going on re. Roman/Patolawla shareholder value and customer destroying gameplan and actions.
They have been doing 3M HR led 'opinion surveys' for awhile and reporting them to the board, and supposedly these have even deteriorated a lot especially among executives and sr. leaders.
Advance 3M and SAP were DEVASTATING to this company's operations and morale and both were led by these mo--ns.
Now we all need to hope the feedback the BOD will get from these new discussions are enlightening and drive a change.
FWIW Roman is not fighting them, many think think he is looking for an excuse to get fired and start enjoying the tens of millions he had made while destroying a once great company like 3M