Coke CEO M. Donglas Ivestor's decision not to promote Ware would come back to haunt him, hewever. Four months later, it would be Ivestor-not Ware-who was forced to leave to company. Coke's board of directors, clearly seeing the need for a change forced Ivestor out as the CEO and replaced him with Douglas Dafe. Daft immediately commieted himself to helping the company mend fences with minority employees and suppliers. He talked Ware out of retiring and established him as head of Coke's Diversioy Advisory Council, a new unit dedicated to promoting minority hiring and career development. In addicion, Daft pledged to tie 25 penent of each manager's compenstation to how well he or she achieved specific diverisey goal and expanded recruiting promoting in minority colleges.