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''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations, the [[chief executive officer]] gets referred to at all times by only his Christian name — so | {{a|people|}}''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations, the [[chief executive officer]]<ref>And his henchmen. Goldman had “Hank, John and John”, Barclays “Bob, Jerry and Richie”, and so on. Grim.</ref> gets referred to at all times by only his Christian name — so “[[Lloyd]]”, “Bob”, “[[Chuck]]”, or “Jamie” — and is immune from the cynicism (which, in any other dimension, [[would be]] total) on the part of those — that is everyone, however much any of them might deny it — who hanker after advancement in the firm. | ||
The [[CEO]] is thus afforded ''Hero of the Soviet Union, First Class'' status — often he will be awarded it by himself — and his pronouncements, however banal, hackneyed or foolish, will be quietly celebrated across the breadth of the organisation as “[[best in class]]”. Until his ouster, whereupon he will acquire the status of [[Trotsky]], [[Snowball]], [[Emmanuel Goldstein]] and so on. | |||
Until then, whatever the [[CEO]] wants, he gets, however flagrantly it tramples on practical traditions, carefully-wrought operating models, or simple precepts of common sense. The conflicted look on the physog of the head of compliance as she rumbustiously waves a column of tanks over a thoughtful policy framework she herself spent years designing, because of an offhand remark at the end of a Management Committee meeting, is a sight to savour. | |||
It is important to separate the wheat of definitively dumb initiatives actually originating with the [[CEO]], to whose beat all must immediately march, from the chaff of crappy deals a [[salesperson]] has tried to ram through by [[The CEO wants this to happen|taking his boss’s name in vain]], of course. | |||
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*[[The CEO wants this to happen]] | |||
*[[Make America Great Again]] | |||
*[[Unjustified enrichment]] | |||
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