[ExI] idea

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am not a CEO, I am only a rocket scientist.

spike

Very dry, sir, positively Saharan.

Now why can't paying the highest for employees be compatible with a
different strategy for the CEO?  bill w

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 7:57 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >>…Sounds like a great place to work.  Who steers the ship?  Why does she
> steer the ship?
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> >>…spike
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> >…Ah, there's the rub.  IN today's climate high level management people
> are given enormous golden parachutes in addition to giant salaries.  This
> may be a trend that is hard to modify…
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> >… bill w
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> Ja.  Big companies compete with each other for high-level management
> talent.  If your company took all those millions it pays the CEO and
> distributed it to the lower-level workers, your company will soon be run by
> an incompetent CEO that no one else would hire, the one that replaced the
> previous CEO who left for high wages at your competitor.  Your company is
> quite unlikely to survive for very long.
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> The whole notion fails to take into account that CEOs are not in direct
> competition with lower level workers.  Lower level workers compete against
> each other, CEOs compete against each other, companies compete against each
> other.  When I worked in engineering at Lockheed, my salary was influenced
> by the salaries of similarly skilled rocket scientists at Boeing, not by
> what the CEO made.  I am not a CEO, I am only a rocket scientist.
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