Breaking Research Finds Most CEO's Don't Have a Soul
Or maybe they are just locked up tight in a heart three times too small?
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Company Executives have always had a hard job, but if they were looking for sympathy, they wouldn’t find it with their overworked and underpaid underlings. Two big incidents recently occurred.
In a Remote Meeting, Clearlink CEO told their employees it's time to come back to the office. He praised a manager for selling his dog to be able to come back and work full time in the office.
The Miller Knoll CEO stated in another Remote Meeting that employees should “Spend their time thinking about reaching their quotas and less time thinking about their lack of bonuses” and that employees should “Visit Pity City, but not live there” all while later the CEO’s compensation was outed at over $5 Million Dollars last year amidst a huge downturn in company revenues.
This type of gravitas from our Leaders highlights 2 major disconnects: One is how Corporate Responsibility and Culture is really broken from the Top Down. Two, now that Digital Video is so important for our main Communications day to day in a remote working world, a lot of this previously private leader to employee communications can be easily leaked to the public, as both these incriminating videos were.
If executives want our sympathy for their plights, they would have to go a long way to show they value us and want to protect us, but really it's a lost cause anyways. Corporate America is mostly interested in protecting Shareholders and Profits. Employee care will always come second. Too bad though, if you or someone became that better leader we all wanted, their company would be able to do great things. We need more Leaders who know what it’s like from the bottom and that don’t forget the people who make the company a success.
2 Ideas For You
Democratically Elected CEO’s would probably be a terrible idea, but what wouldn’t be a terrible idea is a CEO starting out at the Median Salary of the Company and would gain higher pay with good yearly Feedback scores from the rest of their Employees. Eliminating Golden Parachutes and allowing CEO to work for their Employees just as much as their Shareholders would go to solving a lot of the baseline culture problems plaguing companies today.
Remote Companies are having fits about their employees working 2 jobs or more. But the outrage isn’t directed at the specific employees who are at fault, it’s directed at the fact they can get away with it. If that’s the case, who’s really at fault here? The Policy Maker or the Policy Breaker? If the task of their daily job is so easy, they could do it simultaneously for 3 other companies, maybe you should just hire them as contractors and pay by hour or per project.
3 quotes from others
“Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves
-Lao Tzu
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– President John Quincy Adams