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Re:The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader by digi_owl on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:48PM (#16718759)
I'm tempted to say it started in the 80s, as corporate raiders ran around.

This lead to a shift in focus from continuation of the corporation to a focus on shareholder dividends.

Then later the raider mentality turned into the VC mentality, in both cases focusing on a boom-or-bust approach.

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Re:The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader by ouid on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:37PM (#16719151)
There is a reason that it stuck around though, it is a successful strategy in an economy where the prevalence of strategies is highly, if not exclusively, correlated with their ability to make ROI.
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Re:The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader by dvfjsdhgfv on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:22AM (#16723399)
The main question is: successful for who?
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