apeman wrote:GCF, have you ever been in the presence of someone with legitmate authority, i.e. authority that comes from just being better, smarter, harder working, than everyone else? Someone who is a natural leader? Someone who handles adversity so amazingly well that when they get involved you just know the project is gonna work out OK?
These people actually exist. We aren't all equally capable. There are those among us who are, for lack of better word, special. I think Hash calls 'em meta, but maybe not.
I've met a few people that genuinely impressed me with leadership, capability, and presence. People that i wanted to follow.
One was a county judge, another a middle-manager for a tech firm, a martial arts instructor, a math professor, and another is, of course, my father.
Put those people at the top of the corporate pyramid, lock them in a pretty office, and tell them to go. They'll have contact with
maybe 5 executives on a daily basis, and assorted assistants, and of course the shareholders. They have a COO to handle the company, CTO that does all of the tech, and so on and so on. All of that leadership skill is being used to inspire 5-10 people, and to make deals, with little or no concept of what's happening on the ground. You could do that with any decent conman off the street (which is exactly what most of them are).
And yes, of course, I'm not talking about Elon Musk here. There are degrees of value, certainly. But let's stop pretending that CEOs and Executives are some sort of Special Breed of Human that deserves way WAYYYYY the FUCK more money than other workers in a company. Nobody 'deserves' a $50 million bonus. Nobody. The banksters were taking home more than that, in the wake of the TARP bailout. Yet, though it boggles my mind, our society remains in service to them. I need a Tylenol, this shit makes me crazy to think about.
