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Until @amic mentioned the name, I had never heard of Doug McMillon ( #Walmart CEO ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_McMillon
It may be surprising, but most people in real life know that CEOs don't matter much, either in helping $COMPANY make more money, or in matters of people's daily lives. (Only corporate boards of directors seem not to have figured this out. It isn't just government agencies where HQ has head-in-rump syndrome.)
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@musicman Well, founders _are_ different than other CEOs. For one thing, founders have to be grounded in reality or the organization collapses sooner rather than later.
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@musicman They also benefited from their main competitor’s “I want to see the parking lot filled from 9 to 5”.
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@musicman #Epic. When I was looking at #Cerner openings, the employee ratings were “stay as far away as possible” and one oft-mentioned reason was a story about the boss throwing a tantrum about people not being in the office during times when he expected it.
I understood it to mean he didn’t understand that not physically being in the office does not mean someone isn’t doing the work that their job requires during that time. (As I write, I am finishing a case that requires equipment replacement, despite being in an unpaid status since 2019-02-23.)