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In addition the gatekeepers end up insulating the leaders from bureaucracy so execs end up having no idea how their company is actually being run.
by krackers 1y ago
In addition the gatekeepers end up insulating the leaders from bureaucracy so execs end up having no idea how their company is actually being run.
- SiempreViernes 1y agoAh yes, the good king and the evil advisor, classic setup: turns out top leadership was innocent all along! /s Obviously any exec who doesn't know how the company is being run is failing a pretty fundamental task, no real excuse possible.
- sevensor 1y agoI’ve seen more than one CEO wear the “goofy uncle” mask and let other executives do the dirty work. I think they’d rather be seen as incompetent than take the heat for bad policies.
- toasterlovin 1y agoOn the other hand, information flow seems like the hardest problem for any large org to solve. How do you actually know what the ground truth is when you’re the CEO of a company many with tens of thousands employees?
- astrange 1y agoWe solve this by assigning some projects to execs to manage directly, skipping management in between. The result of this is that I meet directors less often than anyone else and am not actually sure what a director even does.