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Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? by ImprovedSilence on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:24AM (#6263763)
>> The boards generally don’t own any stock (another problem with our system). The boards don’t really care to hold CEOs accountable.

wait what? That's not right. I would think the opposite case is true here... The boards own stock, and thus the pressure to get that value up for next quarter..

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Re:Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? by jakarta on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:43AM (#6263884)
On the public company side board ownership of stock is often trivial
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