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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. | 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 | 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 insists tanks roll 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 careful 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. | It is careful 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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{{seealso}} | {{seealso}} | ||
*[[The CEO wants this to happen]] | *[[The CEO wants this to happen]] | ||
*[[Make America Great Again]] | |||
*[[Unjustified enrichment]] | *[[Unjustified enrichment]] | ||
{{dramatis personae}} | {{dramatis personae}} | ||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} | ||