[HN Gopher] Business leadership requires unpopular decisions
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       Business leadership requires unpopular decisions
        
       Author : saltysalt
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-09-04 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | thenerdhead wrote:
       | Unpopular decisions end business careers too. What is the point
       | being made here? You can also lead businesses with popular
       | decisions if your incentives all align.
        
         | saltysalt wrote:
         | > Unpopular decisions end business careers too.
         | 
         | True, but business leaders are not elected, and can therefore
         | make broadly unpopular decisions with the backing of their
         | boards and shareholders. In fact I believe its required. For
         | example: redundancies are unpopular, but can benefit the share
         | value.
        
           | thenerdhead wrote:
           | No single person is making those decisions. Not even the CEO.
           | And yes, business leaders are elected by the board they
           | represent.
        
       | chiefalchemist wrote:
       | In business, to be a successful leader often requires unpopular
       | decisions. Your job is to deliver value for the company and it's
       | shareholders, not to be popular.
       | 
       | In politics, unpopular decisions end careers. To be a successful
       | political leader, you need to be popular because you need to get
       | reelected.
       | 
       | > Yes and no, but mostly no.
       | 
       | By defintion, leaders - any / all leaders - make difficult and
       | yes sometimes unpopular decisions. If that isn't happening, that
       | isn't leadership.
       | 
       | Yes, in theory we have politicians in leadership positions. The
       | reality is, very few meet the defintion of leader. That is,
       | getting elected is simply not enough to qualify for the title of
       | leader. The writer is too generous, to a fault. Such sloppiness
       | needs to stop.
       | 
       | Put another way, if your pet barks do you still call it a cat? Of
       | course...OhHellNo. The same rule applies to leader/leadership.
       | People need to stop doling it out like candy on Halloween. The
       | title should be earned and honored. It shouldn't be one of those
       | trophies everyone gets just for showing up.
       | 
       | Else we'll continue to stuck in this Orwellian infinite loop were
       | complete muppets are considered leaders and no one stops to say
       | that's no true. We don't need more fake leaders.
        
         | saltysalt wrote:
         | > Else we'll continue to stuck in this Orwellian infinite loop
         | were complete muppets are considered leaders and no one stops
         | to say that's no true. We don't need more fake leaders.
         | 
         | Strongly agree.
        
       | woliveirajr wrote:
       | TL;DR: the title says it all.
        
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