“Homilies about successful executives involve lots of
virtue-signaling. No boss is going to admit that on Friday nights they consume
pizza and watch box sets of ‘Game of Thrones.’ Instead they claim to meditate
or read improving books. Many business profiles resemble medieval ‘lives of the
saints,’ with the subjects of the hagiographies receiving share options instead
of canonization.”—“Bartleby” column, “Executive Privilege: The Annoying Habits of Highly Effective People,” The Economist, Sept. 29, 2018 (registration
required)
Cases in point, from the article: Richard Branson of
Virgin Group, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apple’s Tim Cook. Feel free to add names
of your own to the list.
(Photo of Tim Cook taken in January 2009, after
Macworld Expo keynote, by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT).)
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