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"There are all these little communities at Google: Gayglers, Jewglers, and my favorite, the Greyglers; that’s the only T-shirt I took with me and st
by bootload 10y ago
"There are all these little communities at Google: Gayglers, Jewglers, and my favorite, the Greyglers; that’s the only T-shirt I took with me and still wear. The Greyglers are led by Vint Cerf, "
I see a lot of these articles, which I like reading btw, about technicians, too old to do the work. [0] Let's turn this idea on it's head: What about "Management, period". Management itself a big source of company inefficiency. [1]
What technology is being created to push down the cost of executive compensation in buiness?
[0] "Just 120 of the Audi factory’s best employees qualify to work on the prestigious R8 assembly line. More than half of R8 workers are over 40. It is said that the easiest way to spot them is to look for the gray hair. The factory calls them “silverliners.”" ~ http://natgeotv.com/ca/megafactories/audi-facts http://natgeotv.com/ca/megafactories/audi-facts
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/executive-pay http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/executive-pay
- zackbrown 10y ago> What technology is being created to push down the cost of executive compensation in buiness? I imagine this technology would be difficult to market and thus difficult to sustain, given that the prospective customers (i.e. decision-makers who control companies' funds) would have personal negative incentives against purchasing it. This reminds me of some friends whose startup's product was software to make lawyers more time-efficient with (billable) administrative tasks. It turns out customers don't come banging down your door to buy a product that 'helps' them make less money.
- bawana 10y agosame problem with government. How do you get them to pay themselves less? How do you get them to be accountable?
- rosege 10y agoThen it needs to come from the board/shareholder level who do care about (or should) about the costs of executive remuneration
- bootload 10y ago"given that the prospective customers (i.e. decision-makers who control companies' funds) would have personal negative incentives against purchasing it." That is something I would believe, push-back from existing people in companies. What about new companies selling products? (remember ways of making money in SW: internal services, contract/consulting and product)
- pjc50 10y ago> What technology is being created to push down the cost of executive compensation in business? Other way round: business exists to provide executive compensation, and the job of the executive is to squeeze everything he (and it's usually a he) can from the investors and the employees. The platonic ideal of a 21st-century company is a CEO and a computer. The computer hires a cloud of transient workers and the CEO pitches slides to investors. Any resemblance to Uber is a coincidence..
- bootload 10y ago"The platonic ideal of a 21st-century company is a CEO and a computer." I like this comparison with Uber.