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Re:Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99M p... by throwcean on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:07AM (#30383616)
Always when these arguments come up I wonder: is there actually a tangible way to measure how much of this was because of Cook (or whatever other CEO)? Maybe he is just riding a wave of success?! Maybe someone else would have the exact same results?

To me it always seems that the success of a company is projected onto its upper management in an unhealthy way. Maybe I am just clueless however.

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Re:Apple chief Tim Cook faces shareholder revolt over $99M p... by refurb on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:14AM (#30384756)
There is no accurate way to measure how much was because of Cook. Clearly he made some decisions as CEO that put the company on a very profitable path.

But the same could be said of any job. Pay a programmer $400k. Was the work completed really worth that much?

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