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..
Yes
They have long-term strategies for *themselves* which entail strip-mining a series of companies in turn, and always bailing just before they collapse
Aye. And on the smaller scale, pushing a company to greater heights under them, but on a growth path that can’t be sustained & ends up robbing the company of its future. But they know the crash might not come for a year or two after they’re done, and they plan their exit accordingly….
... and this is their treadmill to running larger companies and graduating along the CEO path. Some of them leave a wake of burning smaller companies in their path to personal development.
