The job of people around the CEO is primarily to make decisions. All this huge chain of managers is needed only to aggregate information so that the CEO can make an informed decision. This is how many large companies operate. I would even say that there is a direct correlation between the size of the campaign and the number of monitors at the bottom.

The flip side of sitting behind a huge monitor is that you won't stay outside with a huge number of your employees if you make the wrong decision. It's just a different job.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Your description is basically of a "spherical CEO in a vacuum", ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality

[–] grindemup@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Have you worked with very many CEOs at SMEs? Based on my experience it seems to match the description, by and large.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I've been a C-suite executive, and I've worked with executives (incl. CEOs) at public companies.

Not only is there often a thermocline of truth that stops "bad" information going up the chain, CEOs more often than not make decisions based on nothing but their own opinions, and they will more than happily discard any information that doesn't already fit that opinion, and even if negative things do manage to reach them from the other side of the thermocline, they often discount it or explain it away

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