CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers

I’ve written a lot about the AOL–>AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery mergers simply because I think they perfectly encapsulate the pointless, destructive incompetence at the heart of mo…

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“The frustrating thing is that we have known for four or five decades what attributes we should be selecting for… and yet we don't do it,” says Chamorro-Premuzic, who also serves as the chief talent scientist at the workforce solutions company ManpowerGroup. “We started focusing so much on style, extraversion, assertiveness, lean in, be confident, brand yourself, make eye contact, body language, that we forgot to focus on substance.”

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210226-failing-up-why-some-climb-the-ladder-despite-mediocrity

#FailingUp

'Failing up': Why some climb the ladder despite mediocrity

Allowing workers to 'fail up' can yield talented leaders. But only some people are allowed to fail without penalty, while others never get the chance.

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@SnowyCA Yeah - maybe I should start searching for books on the subject!

#FailingUp

I'd love to see a #FailingUp where people would tell stories of people failing yet still getting promoted.

I'd love to compile a book of all these stories too.

For example, I watched a project that was valued at over a million tank completely and the project head got a promotion and given even more money.

@Dianora we called it #failingup in the #corporate world
Without Russia propping up his finances, and his stupid TV show propping up his place in the public eye, Trump would have been finished a long time ago.
#FailingUp
#FascistClown
Just had a realization: failing like a Kabbalist means you fail up. Every adversity is an opportunity to grow, overcome, and learn. #FailingUp #Kabbalah
New book exposes lies behind the myth of Trump's business acumen

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"By June 1990, #Trump was heavily in #debt. He owed banks and bondholders $3.4 billion, “nearly all of it high-interest debt.” His father’s money helped bail him out. Then came #TheApprentice... everyone involved knew they were creating #fiction — even the conference rooms at #TrumpTower were so dilapidated that they had to be faked — but to millions of #Americans, the fiction became more real than the truth."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/17/lucky-loser-donald-trump-finances-susanne-craig-russ-buettner-review/

#Fraud #TrumpLies #Lies #TV #Fake #FailingUp

Donald Trump’s financial failures are stunning. ‘Lucky Loser’ has the receipts.

Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner’s book is much more than an excavation of the former president’s tax returns.

The Washington Post