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The rise of Whatever (eev.ee)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I went to a conference for college newspaper editors at the University of Georgia in 2000. The goodie bag included a copy of a UGA professor's book When MBAs Run the Newsroom. And prescient. Now they run everything and have no fucking clue what the business actually does.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Worse: they actively do not care. "I don't know how to [insert business type here], but I know how to manage." Like the former CEO of McDonald's taking over (one of?) the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Who needs a PhD, MD, or knowledge of things like biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, etc., when you know how to uh... what was the goal again? Oh yes: "make number go up".

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