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<flameon> CEOs can't underperform, wage earners aren't working hard enough and are just there for money </flameoff>

I'm a bit surprised this article only mentions replacing the CEO. It takes for granted that companies are top-down organisations

Some companies perform well without even a CEO, as featured in _Capitalism: A Love Story_ from Michael Moore, and several press cases, like a national teabag brand close to my place.

Also, in every company that I saw, improvements were made by applying ideas from the lowest levels of management (like automating boring tasks), and neither HR nor CEO level.

I don't get why we need CEOs, if it's not to tweet and to have friends to get contracts.

<serious question, i'm not an investor>

Why won't investors experiences with other models of management, when the CEO is underperforming ?

When is the particular CEO underperforming, and when is the model underperforming ?

<serious question, i'm not an investor/>



> <flameon> CEOs can't underperform, wage earners aren't working hard enough and are just there for money </flameoff>

For such a markup, it would make more sense to have some kind of delimiter to more easily match tags e.g. <flame-on> ... </flame-off>, where the second term is a reserved keyword that defines the scope.

That said, I think that <flame-comment></flame-comment> where the tags are matching would make more sense since they would probably be more compatible with existing markup languages.




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