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I don't agree with that take at all. No leader would be able to learn from mistakes or grow if they had to metaphorically commit Seppuku every time they made a
by Enginerrrd 4y ago
I don't agree with that take at all. No leader would be able to learn from mistakes or grow if they had to metaphorically commit Seppuku every time they made a mistake by resigning or abdicating their authority.
Taking responsibility would mean owning the situation as being caused by you, and critically evaluating your actions to see if there were different paths you could have taken given the same information, or if there was other information that you should have added to your decision-making.
There are some mistakes so grave and unjustifiable that resignation would be the appropriate way to take responsibility for them, but I don't think a round of layoffs pending an expected economic downturn after excessive growth qualifies.
- lapcat 4y ago> if they had to metaphorically commit Seppuku every time they made a mistake This is very far from Zuck's first mistake. In any case, though, I offered an alternative: making himself accountable to the board of directors. He is not accountable. He can't be fired, he can only resign. The fundamental problem is that Zuck gets to define the terms of his own accountability, which is almost an oxymoron.
- eru 4y agoEmployees can resign, users and customers can go elsewhere.
- lapcat 4y agoHow does this relate to the mistake of vastly overhiring?
- lovich 4y agoHow does it relate to him being accountable? As the user up thread stated he is literally not accountable because he answers to no one
- lapcat 4y ago> As the user up thread stated That was me. > he is literally not accountable because he answers to no one Zuck said he wanted to take accountability for overhiring and then having to do layoffs. So the question is, what does the theoretical possibility of employees resigning or users leaving have to do with accountability for overhiring and layoffs?
- lovich 4y agoIt has nothing to do with accountability. The reason that everyone has a visceral response to him saying he accountable is because we know it is not true
- lapcat 4y agoSorry, I was confused by your reply. I thought you were arguing with me? Maybe not. But I'm still confused by it.
- lovich 4y agoAh, no. I’m in agreement that he is not being accountable. I am perhaps taking it farther in arguing that he is incapable of being accountable given how meta is structured
- r00fus 4y agoAnd this is one downside to the unitary CEO/COB. He, like Vladimir Putin, is only accountable to himself. Ideally, society should not allow this type of business structure if a company is public or a reasonably large size (say 5k employees).
- mempko 4y agoWe got rid of kings in politics for a reason. Businesses will eventually learn these lessons, even if it's a hundred years later.