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The point of being a CEO is that you are ultimately responsible for what decisions are made. Even if decisions are delegated. Because guess what, you as CEO are
by llarsson 6y ago
The point of being a CEO is that you are ultimately responsible for what decisions are made. Even if decisions are delegated. Because guess what, you as CEO are responsible for delegating correctly.
Failure to realize this is shameful.
- iou 6y ago+1
- krapp 6y agoThere's a reason "shit rolls downhill" is a common idiom.
- sonotathrowaway 6y ago“The buck stops here” is also a well known saying. President Truman had a sign on his desk with the saying.
- srswtf123 6y agoAlas, thats a relic of a bygone era. More recently, our politicians simply “don’t recall”, or worse directly lie to us. For C-level folks, its simpler. Take no responsibility ever, unless forced to by the courts. Even then, taking actual responsibility is so rare that I have no examples.
- pkulak 6y agoSadly, now the people with the most power also want the least responsibility (and the most money).
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- toss1 6y agoYes, this describes nicely what sociopaths seek. That this is common in most organizations shows that most larger organizations end up being selection systems for filtering sociopathic to the top. It is not because their are deliberately designed this way, but because this is what sociopaths seek, and the organization fails to actively filter against it.
- pmontra 6y agoAbout sociopaths and management https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- toss1 6y agoGreat article - I'd seen another on the S/C/L model, possibly by the same guy, and this one went into more depth - it's a really interesting insight - thx!
- pmontra 6y agoMy pleasure. It was posted a long time ago on HN and also a few months ago. Actually I didn't notice the recent repost. See https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Gervais https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Gervais
- krapp 6y ago>It is not because their are deliberately designed this way, but because this is what sociopaths seek, and the organization fails to actively filter against it. The sociopaths are the ones designing the organization and creating the legal and bureaucratic frameworks ostensibly meant to filter them out. That the end result nurtures and rewards them and allows them to use their subordinates as a bullet sponge seems entirely deliberate.
- foolmeonce 6y agoThere's also a reason the Ottomans needed to make an idiom to explain organizational failure: "The fish stinks from the head down."
- pluc 6y agoExactly. It may not be direct responsibility - but it's still your fault that password policies weren't made obvious on the onboarding process for IT hires for example. It's your fault there isn't a culture of technical supervision, or regular auditing, etc etc.
- Spooky23 6y agoIt’s a good thing. Now we know this isn’t an isolated incident and that the company needs to be fully shunned.
- pirsquare 6y agoCouldn't agree more. The reason why CEOs are so well paid is to come up with processes to prevent such things from happening in the first place. The management team should be the first to be blamed when such incidents arise.
- justapassenger 6y agoEach time leader blames his team for a failure, it’s as clear of a signal as you can ever get, to runaway, both as an employee and customer.
- andrei_says_ 6y agoThis ought to be a motivational poster. Throwing an intern under the bus is silly and disgusting.
- itsdrewmiller 6y agoThe CNN headline is actually "Former" CEO, because he did in fact resign.
- saos 6y agoYeahh, red flag not to work for that company whilst under his leadership
- retox 6y agoI have never been a CEO so take this as a question rather than a statement. Someone in that position can lay our rules, regulations, governance standards etc for people under you, but how realistic is it that a CEO has any visibility on how they are implemented or enforced?