This, in a nutshell, is why C-level leaders in the private sector seldom replicate that success in public leadership. In a corporation, there are layers and layers insulating you from the consequences of your own actions. There are underlings to blame your failures on, higher-level execs whose job it is to deflect, PR departments who will distract shareholders and customers, board members who will make apologies, and lawyers who will pull you out of legal ditches. The layers of insulation are thick, and guys who spend decades in such a bubble can easily decide that they're simply immune from consequences.
Trump and Musk seem to have both over-learned these lessons. Nothing they do is real. Nothing matters LOL. It's all whatever you can get people to believe.
The fact that they're now doing things that are literally going to kill millions of people in the next few years, deprive hundreds of millions of Americans of essential help they utterly depend on, abandon allies we've spent most of a century cultivating -- they simply can't imagine the reality of any of this. In corporate life, they were kings and gods, and what they did was never wrong. In government, they are doing things that will destroy lives, communities, and our entire civilization.
And we simply cannot make it matter to them.
Thomas Simpson
Yep. Shit turns South real fast when investors get nervous.
Sara Robinson
Thomas Simpson But it takes a lot for the failure to break through. They're protected for a long time. And in the case of both Musk and Trump, they were almost completely insulated from their massive failures by the cults that surrounded them, convinced they could do no wrong. Trump never had a board; Musk's boards will never say no to him. So they've operated uniquely free of even the usual incentives that shareholders are supposed to provide.
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Colin Summers
It is in Russia's interest to destabilize the dollar. I am not saying he's an asset, but if you think of him as an asset a lot of things make more sense.
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