> In the enterprise, if someone high ranking is going to be replaced, they're never fired unless there was company-hostile bad behavior.

What? Perhaps in shitty companies that are incapable of making tough decisions, but this is definitely not my experience.

On the contrary, for most cases I don't think there is much "shame" for being fired as a senior exec because a lot of times it's just that there are disagreements among senior leadership about where to take the company, and so it's better to have people leave who aren't on board with the company direction than to have those disagreements fester.