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John Moses's avatar

It felt to me it was about true accountability within the agreement's execs sign on with. Provisions like golden parachutes and other ways to cushion a failure in a pillow of success. This encourages reckless short-term behavior that especially hurts workers.

The other component executive leadership truly lack is an "enlisted" advisory type of structure. Often execs only think in one direction with little true accounting from those non-executive types. Too many yesses, not enough pushback.

Most important, Executives are only in service to their board. Unless we change the board and exec structure from "all the money right now, all the time" to something more balanced accountability will always be difficult to police themselves. They are all heroes in their own story.

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Josh Ensign's avatar

I hadn't thought about the missing senior enlisted advisor piece at all, so that is really interesting. I have definitely spend some time railing against short term incentives that encourage bad behavior and compromise long term success.

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