"I have the luxury of an army of support staff to control the flow of information to me, for I am the peak of the information pyramid" He has a sortof point wh

"I have the luxury of an army of support staff to control the flow of information to me, for I am the peak of the information pyramid" He has a sortof point which is you need to sift through the noise to get the signal. The issue is, and he's very much shielded from this, is that most places have a massive amount of noise, and its impossible to keep up. If its my job to be the "decider" as he likes to be, and I am the top of the pyramid, then its trivial to be informed all the time. If I have to do other things as well as this, then its hard. At smaller companies I had an information network, which meant I was very well informed. I could, if I needed to, broker information. At a large FAANG, and not living in the main country, that is impossible. You are reliant on third parties who you don't know personally.