One thing I’ve noticed in 45+ years of working in the corporate world is CEO’s, managers, wealthy people, and anyone else in positions of power are not the smartest guys/gals in the room. The smartest people are the ones who don’t strive to achieve power. Most of the smartest people I’ve met in those 45+ years are often the ones who wouldn’t back stab, suck up, or play the corporate games required to climb the ladder. I’ve seen more CEO’s fail miserably than succeed. I’ve seen rich people get lucky or acquire their wealth through immoral or illegal means. Many just got lucky.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 6:18 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: Today's large companies, IMO, are for the enrichment of the CxOs and large stock holders. Some of the attitude today is similar to what caused "lower class" workers to unionize. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:11 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Bridges wrote: > >I don't know whether it's fair to say so, but top management is often > >from the older crowd, and in their youth it was much more common for > >workers to need the job and feel fortunate to be employed. Nowadays, > >at least so it seems to me, many more people have a cussed independent > >streak and feel free to go somewhere else if they want. > > .which they come by honestly, having seen/experienced too many instances > of companies abusing employee loyalty, lying about futures, etc. It's a > two-way street: you treat people well, they will pay it back. You act like > 90-some percent of employers these days, be lucky if you get two weeks' > notice. > > Not saying you didn't know this, just being explicit because I'm tired of > hearing companies whinge about "loyalty" (comma, lack thereof). > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
