The more senior you get in big tech, the executive demeanor & tone become important. The simplest way to describe it is that telling someone who makes half a million dollars a year that their idea is dumb is poor form.

So executive ranks end up full of people who aren’t direct.

This is a bit facetious because you should give feedback on the idea and not the person but not rocking the boat is probably the most important skill for peacetime execs in big tech.

The big question is how these execs handle wartime. This is Google’s trillion dollar question.

@carnage4life one thing I’ve noticed reading the leaked tech emails Twitter though, is the highest level of leadership are very direct and blunt with each other, their emails are short and aren’t flowery

@carnage4life The corollary is that those one top make increasingly stupid decisions because the people under them are afraid to tell them the truth.

Elon Musk in a nutshell, though is is there pretty much everywhere you look at the top.

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Probably the main reason I’ll never become an executive.
@carnage4life Or telling the richest person on earth that their idea is dumb. 😭
@carnage4life for better or worse that has not been my experience at Apple