Welcome to the glorious world of managing. It sounds great but it required attention, a calm demeniour and corrections/adjustments. There is no free lunch on the corporate ladder of shit. You might dig the hole, plan the hole, supervise the hole. Only the man that owns the hole is getting a free lunch in this long centipede of shit.
Same for me. He seemed so... Honest. He walked that line between left and right, not siding. It made me think, "this is a genuine guy". Fuck me, I guess. Truly affected me more than most things lately. I realise that makes me sound cold, given recent events, but it did. Again, fuck me, I guess.
While I agree with you about the issue, i would like to point out that countries with "Democratic" in their names aren't shining beacons of democracy. This funny quip is easy to win.
I'm not sure quite how it relates to what I said. Maybe we are looking at the word risk differently. Let me give an easy example that shows what I think normally is hidden because of complexity.
Five CEOs are faced with the same opportunity to invest heavily in a make or break deal. They either succeed or they go bus, iif they do it. This investment, for one reason or another, only have one winner (because we are simplifying a complex real world problem). All five CEOs invest, four go bust and one wins big. In this simplified example, the one winning CEO would be seen as a great CEO. After all, he did great. The reasonable decision would have been to not invest, but that doesn't make you a great CEO that can move on to better, greener jobs or cash out huge bonuses. No-one remembers the reasonable CEO that made expected gains without unneeded risks.
Sadly don't think this is going to happen. A good CEO doesn't make calculated decisions based on facts and judge risk against profit. If he did, he would, at best, be a normal CEO. Who wants that? No, a truly great CEO does exactly what a truly bad CEO does; he takes risks that aren't proportional to the reward (and gets lucky)!
This is the only way to beat the game, just like with investments or roulette. There are no rich great roulette players going by the odds. Only lucky.
Sure, with CEOs, this is on the aggregate. I'm sure there is a genius here and a Renaissance man there... But on the whole, best advice is "get risky and get lucky". Try it out. I highly recommend it. No one remembers a loser. And the story continues.
I'm not saying anything about his age. I'm assuming, which I maybe should not, about the politics of many political systems. I'll give it 3 years, plus/minus 3 years.
I was in the mood to rewatch Seinfeld the other day. I'd sort of forgotten about his other statements. I don't think I can "separate the man from the art". I have this with some dead artists. It just makes me sad. I have this with some live one too. I guess it's like the line - "You can never go home again, but I guess you can shop there." I'm not sure what to make of it, but some things are never the same. Happy Festivus.
Welcome to the glorious world of managing. It sounds great but it required attention, a calm demeniour and corrections/adjustments. There is no free lunch on the corporate ladder of shit. You might dig the hole, plan the hole, supervise the hole. Only the man that owns the hole is getting a free lunch in this long centipede of shit.