Comments on: Hayward – Buh Bye.

By: Kenfu

Kenfu — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:51:21 +0000

I honestly think that the employees of companies contribute greater success/failure to the company than a CEO; the CEO gets all the pay, credit and blame though. I’m sure any one of us could do an equally good job of being a CEO of any of the major companies and be successful.

By: Thraxxus

Thraxxus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:02:49 +0000

The primary difference is building materials. Things will make prettier colors when we watch it all burn now than when Nero watched his go down.

By: Caravaggio

Caravaggio — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:29:38 +0000

In celebration of Ancient Rome, I now only drink my wine out of lead-ladened goblets.

By: Thraxxus

Thraxxus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:30:52 +0000

I agree. I believe that is one of the main things that freaks ScanJack out a bit – how much our own culture now mirrors that of Ancient Rome, and we know what happened to them.

By: Caravaggio

Caravaggio — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:27:54 +0000

I believe this to be a case study in the dynamics of career success. The theory exists that native and crafted abilities are now less a deciding element in “getting ahead”. That the single most critical factor with promotions is based on a social network… “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. This type of social incest-based promotional schema GUARANTEES that we will suffer through more “Gulf Oil Spill” shocks in other industries around the world for the foreseeable future.

Leadership use to be a social science. Now, due to MBA programs attempting to be more “open-minded”, we’ve hollowed out this science into a convenient measure of “personality-defined leadership”. Said another way, any method is an appropriate method for leading corporations… it is all about the person’s personality doing the leading.

Pure Rubbish. Let us ponder the social factors involved with the fall of the Roman Empire. ‘Nuff said.