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The CEO class isn't inherently smarter than you. In fact, they're pretty much the same as you, albeit frequently with more sociopathic tendencies. They do the same things you see average people on the street doing, including subscribing to their own questionable fads and cargo cults.

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Well, this doesn't matter. It is all about incentives.

CEO class is motivated by KPIs. Focus solely on KPI creates volatility in all the other variables that are not this year's KPIs. Hiring and then firing feels like work, hence needs to be compensated.

Nobody in the corporate america is compensated to explicitly do nothing, even though it might be the most appropriate move in a given quarter.

Well, they have multitudes of assistants at their disposal. Delegation multiplies one's productivity factor. It's like gaining access to multiple CPU cores.

And like with parallel programming, there are many bugs, traps, pitfalls that make it hard to properly leverage the art of delegation

The CEO class is a mixed group of people, some of which are incredibly smart. But your point is well taken and worth considering. They are "just people" too.

On a side note, I can't figure out all the responses to this comment. Everyone seems to be piling on and talking about stuff totally unrelated to your point.

But you don't have the access of CEOs.

Its not just the CEO, if you realised just how much board and line management are like the 3 blind mice, trying to meet their targets, invent new targets all the while trying to survive in the corporate version of the Robert Morris Water Maze, simultaneously playing Corporate Buzzword Bingo or C B B's [1], I'm surprised so many people put up with life like this!

Lemmings[2] is a very educational game on many levels.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)

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