[HN Gopher] What do executives do, anyway? (2019)
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       What do executives do, anyway? (2019)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-05-16 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | hyperhello wrote:
       | Execute?
        
         | bdangubic wrote:
         | Health Care company execs are the only ones that _execute_ :)
        
       | antman wrote:
       | An executive manages the leaders,an executive manages the
       | strategy, an executive prioritizes what needs growth management
       | or transformation. Any person with a mandate for decisions that
       | can affect all of the company is an executive.
        
         | astrange wrote:
         | > Any person with a mandate for decisions that can affect all
         | of the company is an executive.
         | 
         | This directly conflicts with the article, which says executives
         | shouldn't make decisions.
        
       | gamblor956 wrote:
       | At a previous job, one of the executives spent most of his day
       | playing Facebook games (i think Farmville was still big at the
       | time), and another watched porn on his work laptop.
       | 
       | At my current and last job, the (operational and finance)
       | executives spent most of their days in meetings. The legal and HR
       | executives spent most of their days browsing the internet.
        
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