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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon... by WalterBright on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:38AM (#23879290)
> Some people have EXPONENTIALLY more impact on saving a business than everyone else in the building.

This is true in every organization.

The canonical example is Steve Jobs.

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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon... by AsyncAwait on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:30AM (#23879988)
So it's not NeXT engineers is it?
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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon... by simonh on Saturday July 18, 2020 @05:18AM (#23880146)
If he had either Avie Tevanian or Bertrand Serlet, the rest could be replaced. I was originally going to say he’d need both, but in reality one would do at a pinch.
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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon... by HPsquared on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:28AM (#23880401)
Price's Law applies all the way down. It's a small portion of the engineers.
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Re:On eve of bankruptcy, US firms shower executives with bon... by AsyncAwait on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:43AM (#23881341)
Sure, but isn't the problem that it's also a small portion of the executives, but practically all executives get paid rather well in cases like this?
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