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Forest for the trees in this thread ... One of the characteristics of a good CEO is their judgment of risk. That includes their ability to avoid controversy f

Forest for the trees in this thread ... One of the characteristics of a good CEO is their judgment of risk. That includes their ability to avoid controversy for their organization, and put the organization's message above their own. He knew this tweet might have the risk of financial impact to the company he was specifically and volunatrily selected to protect (among other things) its financial health, and if he had ran it by the board they absolutely would have told him not to post it. The poor judgment on display here is the core issue.

effingwewt 5y ago
By this metric Elon Musk is the single worst CEO ever. I can get behind that =) edit to make substantive I don't think we should be firing people for their beliefs, at what point are out jobs separated from our personal lives. Having said that, if you say something as CEO you take what you get, like Elon should have. I'm sure each and every one of us has done things that if captured on camera, or were we CEO and posted it to Twitter as opposed to speaking it, would have gotten us fired. Or we need to get rid of the bullshit and just have political businesses, where left leaning people work for left leaning companies, etc.
sk2020 5y ago
I would be a bit skeptical if anyone actually measured or even forecast impacts to sales prior to this decision. I had actually never heard of Tripwire until the story, so it’s excellent for increasing the company’s exposure to a broader market. Mozilla took similar action with respect to Brendan Eich. You can judge how well that worked for them.
- kthejoker2 5y ago
  First, I'm not sure Tripwire wants to be "heard of" - most video game publishers want their games to be the brand. Second, you don't have to explicitly "forecast" sales impact to understand there might be an impact, and that that impact is guaranteed to be negative. (Again - CEOs are paid to be good at exactly these sorts of judgment calls.) Throwing out tweets on a hot button political topic as the CEO of a games company is, at best, a high-risk, low-reward branding strategy.

effingwewt 5y ago

By this metric Elon Musk is the single worst CEO ever. I can get behind that =) edit to make substantive I don't think we should be firing people for their beliefs, at what point are out jobs separated from our personal lives. Having said that, if you say something as CEO you take what you get, like Elon should have. I'm sure each and every one of us has done things that if captured on camera, or were we CEO and posted it to Twitter as opposed to speaking it, would have gotten us fired. Or we need to get rid of the bullshit and just have political businesses, where left leaning people work for left leaning companies, etc.

sk2020 5y ago

I would be a bit skeptical if anyone actually measured or even forecast impacts to sales prior to this decision. I had actually never heard of Tripwire until the story, so it’s excellent for increasing the company’s exposure to a broader market. Mozilla took similar action with respect to Brendan Eich. You can judge how well that worked for them.

kthejoker2 5y ago
First, I'm not sure Tripwire wants to be "heard of" - most video game publishers want their games to be the brand. Second, you don't have to explicitly "forecast" sales impact to understand there might be an impact, and that that impact is guaranteed to be negative. (Again - CEOs are paid to be good at exactly these sorts of judgment calls.) Throwing out tweets on a hot button political topic as the CEO of a games company is, at best, a high-risk, low-reward branding strategy.