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I was acknowledging that a mob cancelling a founder CEO and kicking him out of his own company could surely have deleterious downstream effects on workforce mor
by TechBro8615 5y ago
I was acknowledging that a mob cancelling a founder CEO and kicking him out of his own company could surely have deleterious downstream effects on workforce morale. It’s an arguable point and opinions probably range from “the CEO is a mostly pointless figurehead” to “everything flows from the CEO.”
You really can’t discuss what might have caused Uber to lose its market advantage, without first addressing this topic. But it’s contentious and so my comment was meant as “let’s assume the firing of the CEO has no impact, so we can move on to considering other variables.”
- rsynnott 5y agoIn very rare cases the CEO may be critically important (maybe Jobs at certain points in Apple's history), or critically deleterious (I think there's an argument that late-stage Ballmer was this), but generally, a CEO is just a CEO; there's very little reason to think ejecting Kalanick harmed Uber significantly (keeping him might have harmed them slightly, but probably not significantly).