C-suites have always made bafflingly dumb choices about implementing new tech, but it does feel like executives are making those dumb choices at a much faster, more dangerous rates nowadays
Feels like C-suites are speed-running their own tenures at companies more now. More willing to 'burn the ships' for a few good years under them, make good coin, then peace out or bounce to the next thing.
Seems to be way less long-term planning/strategy.. which I have a few different thoughts on..
one more thing I’ll say is this also feels tied to the loss of consequences & loss of the importance of ‘reputation’.
Politics have devolved so much, & this is now impacting the corporate world. Anyone that faked caring about ethics for their reputation feels like that shit doesn’t matter anymore
lmao yes this too. But there used to be a world where some CEOs cared enough about pretending to care or pretending to be inspiring and ethical, et cetera
Also the CEOs 'talk' & this thread might land me on some List of Ire but whatever. If you're a CEO & GAF about others this doesn't apply to you
Maybe I'm cynical but it seems like CEO's have never taken ethics seriously. If a company is big enough to have a CEO, they are doing something unethical, usually screwing their employees.
They never took ethics seriously or were punished for screwing the employees (often the opposite), but my impression is that it used to be if you actually ran *the company* into the ground, you didn't get hired to run another one. Now it seems to be SOP (also applies to university presidents).
Like, the point was to make money for the company and shareholders, which meant corporate profits, not salaries to the C-suite while the company itself takes a massive loss.
yeah, this is one aspect I find especially 'interesting' about the loss or diminishing of consequences. This is one I did not think would be quite as.... reduced? diminished? as others? I'm slowly getting a migraine so losing words but... need to come back to this specific thought when better
