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The assumption is that a good CEO will review his employees' performance, and ability to execute his vision, and either develop them or let them go and bring in
by Pyxl101 11y ago
The assumption is that a good CEO will review his employees' performance, and ability to execute his vision, and either develop them or let them go and bring in the right people. The CEO is the person who dives into the organization to find and fix its broken pieces; he starts with his direct reports, who then audit and fix their organizations, and so on, until the company gets where it needs to be. He doesn't do it all personally, and can rely on divide-and-conquer, but the CEO is the one leading change in the company.
- wpietri 11y agoYes, and I think that top-down paradigm is fundamentally ridiculous at this scale. That we are expecting one person to do all that is a sign of a problem. This might have made sense in a 1950s corporation, where the work was relatively stable and manual, where you needed armies of people to perform repetitive actions. But most of Twitter's people are engaged in what is essentially creative work. When I talk to friends at large software companies, I hear a lot about top-down reorgs and other central-planning issues. Given that primates are always looking for dominance hierarchies, maybe we really can't do much better than organizations where replacing the CEO is the main way to solve problems. But I hope for something better.