The irony here is that you could easily fire 80% of the C-suite and VPs and a company should survive for some time. This is kind of a tautology because leadersh

The irony here is that you could easily fire 80% of the C-suite and VPs and a company should survive for some time. This is kind of a tautology because leadership at bigger companies should be mostly operating at the months-to-years timeframe, so it should take a long time (or a unique emergency) for their absence to be felt. We could run both experiments (firing engineers vs firing execs) against each other across a sample of companies and I know which I'd bet on to still be mostly functional 3-4 weeks later.