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What? Has anyone ever met an executive? They are abusive, power-hungry, and ruthless. Our tech folk hero Jobs is a perfect example. Their power and salaries ins
by wfo 12y ago
What? Has anyone ever met an executive? They are abusive, power-hungry, and ruthless. Our tech folk hero Jobs is a perfect example. Their power and salaries inspire at best fear and at worst resentment and contempt. They do their best when they step back and let experts do real work, taking care of the administrative and management details so people with real skills don't have to. They climb corporate power structures because corporate power is what's important to them and they've learned how to get it.
I recognize this is all anecdotal but the outpouring of anecdotal executive-sympathy in this comment thread is mind-boggling; a little push back in the other direction seems not out of line.
- stolio 12y ago....you do realize that Steve Jobs built the power structure he sat on top of, that it floundered when they pushed him out in the 80's, then became successful again when they hired him back in the 90's?
- lazyjones 12y ago> Our tech folk hero Jobs is a perfect example. Their power and salaries inspire at best fear and at worst resentment and contempt Jobs' annual salary was $1 from 1997 until his death. Just saying ...
- wfo 12y agoCertainly personal wealth wasn't a motivating factor for him, but that doesn't disqualify him as the perfect poster child for my point. The point at hand is the general character of executives: they inspire fear (check), they are power-hungry (check), they are abusive (check).