• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    sometimes you bring on a ceo just to get some controversial thing done. they can eat the blame and then leave

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      16 hours ago

      Exactly this, they are usually young too and they know their only job is to fire ppl and/or do decisions that will make most if not all unhappy. I have only seen it once my self but a lot of friends went through that at their company.

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        5 hours ago

        the sad part is the act they put on coming in. many at the company will think this is a real hire that will bring about good cultural change

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      I’m embarrassed it took me so long to realize this. Somebody explained that to me recently, within the context of a conversation about layoffs. That CEO had no prior CEO experience, was only there for less than a year, and was part of the board of directors. In hindsight it seems so obvious.