• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s a bit surprising how many CEO’s express disdain for their users and employees.

    When employees are reduced to an “input resource” number on a spreadsheet, and they sit insulated from user complaints, and likely surround themselves with sycophants, I suppose it’s inevitable.

    Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

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      8 days ago

      Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

      Yes, but also the corporate world has a nasty tendency to promote psychopaths to CEO positions because they think a lack of humility is the same as competence.

    • e461h@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      It should be common knowledge but marketing and legal teams spend lots of money and time protecting them.

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          8 days ago

          PR department is propaganda department. When propaganda earned a negative reputation, Edward Bernays, the same person who wrote the book that coined the term Propaganda coined the term PR to replace it in an American corporate context.

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          7 days ago

          No, I mean marketing the org. They own the brand. C-level activities directly impact brand so marketing works to mitigate impact.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      Its a great metric for a corporate job. Still into how they decide what features are built for their products, what gets priority. Best places I worked at always involved customer feedback in some way. Arrogant line go up places always chat about looking at competitors and feeling out the market.

      Turns out when you build things customers want, they keep being customers. Who woulda thunk.