The rise of Whatever

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• Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think what the author describes as the culture of Whatever is also a big reason everything kinda sucks now. It’s all run by MBAs who have no relation to the product and have no vision except “line goes up”. They have no incentive to care about the product they’re offering because they couldn’t care less about it.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I went to a conference for college newspaper editors at the University of Georgia in 2000. The goodie bag included a copy of a UGA professor’s book When MBAs Run the Newsroom. And prescient. Now they run everything and have no fucking clue what the business actually does.

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Worse: they actively do not care. "I don't know how to [insert business type here], but I know how to manage." Like the former CEO of McDonald's taking over (one of?) the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Who needs a PhD, MD, or knowledge of things like biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, etc., when you know how to uh... what was the goal again? Oh yes: "make number go up".

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They have no incentive to care about the product they're offering because they couldn't care less about it.

    I think it's kinda even worse: they'll take a good product and actively make it worse, so it's not mere indifference to it but active hatred towards the wants of the customers, in contrast to the desires of the Board.

    Like why change a perfectly good logo? If it serves its purpose, then leave it alone?! But no, line must go up, and even if changing the logo makes it go down, then oh well...

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Golden parachute time! They can take some time off while figuring out what to fuck up next.

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