I'll preface this by saying I am not writing this in a snide tone, and certainly am not making any criticism of your newsletter and I absolutely loved "The Sports Gene", but this is being delivered in a general sense of the culture of CEO worship, which I find to be so unbelievably deserving, and desperately needing to be on the way out …
I'll preface this by saying I am not writing this in a snide tone, and certainly am not making any criticism of your newsletter and I absolutely loved "The Sports Gene", but this is being delivered in a general sense of the culture of CEO worship, which I find to be so unbelievably deserving, and desperately needing to be on the way out as a trend from the people in media who can publish with reach,
I see the problem Sarah mentioned is that the growth of 700k employees she is so praised for, most of them being unpaid volunteers is really not something that should be celebrated. People need employment, they don't have lots of free time, and if they are doing work they should be paid especially if the board and administration of the organization had salaries as high as girl scouts. It seems like you could find any worker co-op in the world and they would all be operating at a minimum how she did, but really much more "circular". And little things like the "dont say but, but say and" is one of those things that seems like you are being thoughtful but its easy to read between lines in conversations and also address tones.
Also anyone closely affiliated with Peter Drucker should be taken with a grain of salt he is a known liar (you could say he plays loose with facts, but he lied a lot) and these are also people who have had more than enough praise, accolades, and pomp surrounding them for their entire lives, if there is anyone to celebrate its all those people who volunteer and don' take a paycheck usually while working another job. That is who builds an organization and that is why it was successful, not the CEO, its never the CEO, its the thousands.
This culture of elite worship seems to either be done because editorial boards decide it has to be, or writers feel they have to cover them because another outlet does, but in reality are all the praise pieces that get written about the executive class in which they are fawned over and only presented in the best light, and all the quotes are from other CEOs or executives, not subordinates. This merely reinforces the culture in the country of lionizing and deifying CEOs as the end all be all of success, forgoing people who work 90 hour weeks to raise a family at multiple jobs. They don't get a story, only the CEO does
I'll preface this by saying I am not writing this in a snide tone, and certainly am not making any criticism of your newsletter and I absolutely loved "The Sports Gene", but this is being delivered in a general sense of the culture of CEO worship, which I find to be so unbelievably deserving, and desperately needing to be on the way out as a trend from the people in media who can publish with reach,
I see the problem Sarah mentioned is that the growth of 700k employees she is so praised for, most of them being unpaid volunteers is really not something that should be celebrated. People need employment, they don't have lots of free time, and if they are doing work they should be paid especially if the board and administration of the organization had salaries as high as girl scouts. It seems like you could find any worker co-op in the world and they would all be operating at a minimum how she did, but really much more "circular". And little things like the "dont say but, but say and" is one of those things that seems like you are being thoughtful but its easy to read between lines in conversations and also address tones.
Also anyone closely affiliated with Peter Drucker should be taken with a grain of salt he is a known liar (you could say he plays loose with facts, but he lied a lot) and these are also people who have had more than enough praise, accolades, and pomp surrounding them for their entire lives, if there is anyone to celebrate its all those people who volunteer and don' take a paycheck usually while working another job. That is who builds an organization and that is why it was successful, not the CEO, its never the CEO, its the thousands.
This culture of elite worship seems to either be done because editorial boards decide it has to be, or writers feel they have to cover them because another outlet does, but in reality are all the praise pieces that get written about the executive class in which they are fawned over and only presented in the best light, and all the quotes are from other CEOs or executives, not subordinates. This merely reinforces the culture in the country of lionizing and deifying CEOs as the end all be all of success, forgoing people who work 90 hour weeks to raise a family at multiple jobs. They don't get a story, only the CEO does