{"id":8888,"date":"2011-11-30T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2011-11-30T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:04:52","slug":"todays-corporate-managers-are-not-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/todays-corporate-managers-are-not-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTodays corporate Managers are not Leaders!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have posted on this before, that our corporate management, as has a lot of politicians, have all become so narrowly focused on their own good as opposed to the greater good.  I have no problem<\/strong> of paying for production<\/strong> and improvement.  However, looking over what most CEO<\/strong>\u2019s get paid and how well their respective companies have done over the past<\/strong> 10 to 20 years compared to every other company<\/strong>, I don\u2019t see that they have really gained anything<\/strong>?  Most companies and CEO<\/strong>\u2019s will claim they pay<\/strong> for production<\/strong> but in fact<\/strong> they pay<\/strong> for monthly and maybe quarterly output not long term<\/strong> improvement.  They juggle the number<\/strong>, change the measuring stick<\/strong>, even the constant shaking up of the company<\/strong> in the name of \u201cchanging to focus on the customer\u201d are lines of CRAP<\/strong>.   It is done so the measuring stick<\/strong> is contently broken in \u201cTHEIR\u201d favor not the long term<\/strong> good of the company<\/strong>.  Top<\/strong> managers always seem to get their bonus while the general working<\/strong> people<\/strong> get more work less help<\/strong> and told to work faster or smarter or something<\/strong> so they can get more done with less.   It just irks me that top guys get as much as 280 times what the average employee gets\u2026 How about you?  – WD0AJG<\/font><\/h4>\n

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The decoupling of CEO<\/strong> pay<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/h3>\n

CEO<\/strong> compensation index<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

CEO<\/strong> hate just got a big boost<\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

CEO<\/strong> pay<\/strong> soars while workers’ pay<\/strong> stalls<\/font><\/a><\/h3>\n

Pay for America’s highest-paid CEO<\/strong> tops $131 million<\/font><\/a><\/h3>\n

SEC Probes Executive Perks, Jets<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

‘Overpaid’ CEOs Stay ‘Overpaid’<\/font><\/a><\/h3>\n

Executive Bonuses Bounce Back<\/font><\/a>   <\/h3>\n

Hell, 30% in bonus increase?  These are just a few that can be found on a search<\/strong> of CEO<\/strong> pay<\/strong>\u2026 just disgusting! <\/font><\/h3>\n

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In the Name of Corporate Profitability, 1781 and Today <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

from The Reformed Broker<\/a> by Joshua M Brown <\/p>\n

Corporate profitability is hitting record highs not seen since 1969, with margins for the S&P 500 (ex banks) exceeding 15% according to Moodys<\/a>.   There’s no miraculous secret to how this is being accomplished, we’ve simply offshored every labor function that costs more than a penny an hour and laid off anything<\/strong> on US soil that even breathes.  For those corporate employees fortunate enough to still have a desk they can rest a picture of their kids on, salaries have stagnated<\/a> to the point where “wages as a share of national income fell to 49.4 percent in the third quarter, the lowest since the government began collecting the numbers in 1948.” <\/p>\n

But anything<\/strong> and everything is justified, so long as there is money to be made.  Today’s corporate managers are not Leaders of the Economy or Pillars of the Community.  In many cases, they are ruthless cost-cutters with zero regard for the country in which they do business.  Long-term<\/strong> strategic planning and thinking is subservient to making this quarter’s earnings per share number<\/strong>, no matter what. I suppose that this is why they get the big bucks – the average public company<\/strong> CEO<\/strong> is currently paid at a rate of 280 times the average worker.  You’d be able to say that this is justified because they are “serving the shareholders”, until you came to your senses and realized that the stock market is actually flat over the last decade and that, as a group, public company<\/strong> managers have accomplished very little. <\/p>\n

I am of the opinion that capitalism is the best and most fair economic system known to man, but that sucking the nation dry and giving nothing back is not a good capitalist policy in the long run.  Even Henry Ford, a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist if ever there was one, understood this.  He once gave an unexpected and unasked-for raise to all employees across the Ford Motor Company.  When asked why, he responded that if he didn’t, then how could they afford to buy more cars?  It seems so obvious and yet this concept is more elusive to today’s American corporations than ever before. <\/p>\n

Today in 1781, an act of shocking brutality and wanton disregard for human life was carried out in the name of corporate profits on a British<\/strong> ship<\/strong> en route to the New World.  I bring it up only as a very extreme example of where this type of corporate ethos has led to in the past<\/strong>.  It will forever be known as the Zong Massacre, let’s hear the story from Patricia Hysell of the Little Bits of History<\/em><\/a> blog:<\/p>\n

\n

November 29, 1781: The Zong Massacre takes place. At the time, it was known as \u201cThe Zong Affair\u201d rather than being labeled a massacre. Those who used the term<\/strong> \u201cmassacre\u201d were thought to be \u201cdangerous radicals\u201d of the era. The Zong<\/em> was a British<\/strong> ship<\/strong> owned by James Gregson. On this day, much of his \u201ccargo\u201d was destroyed. The Zong<\/em> was carrying Africans captured to be sold as slaves. <\/p>\n

The ship<\/strong> was originally Dutch and was called Zorg<\/em>, but when the British<\/strong> captured her, she was renamed. She sailed from Liverpool and took on more slaves than she could comfortably handle. She sailed from Africa, heading for Jamaica on September 29, 1781. There was not enough food aboard and the Africans were crowded together. Due to malnutrition and overcrowding, death ran rampant aboard ship<\/strong>. Seven of the crew and approximately sixty of the slaves had died by this date. The trip was taking longer than expected due to bad sailing conditions. <\/p>\n

Captain Luke Collingwood had so many sick slaves below decks that he was faced with an economic problem<\/strong>. If he delivered these sickly, weakened specimens and they died on shore, the company<\/strong> would be without funds from the sale of slaves. However, he reasoned that if the slaves were killed at sea, the insurance company<\/strong> would pay<\/strong> the jettison clause of \u00a330 per head. The captain and crew decided to throw the sick overboard. On this day, the first 54 were sent over the rails. On the next two days, 42 and 26 more were sent to their watery graves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is a cost<\/strong> to being obsessed with cost, to fixating on profits only – no matter what must be done to obtain them. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, for every good corporate citizen like the Hershey Company, there are a hundred companies that are more concerned with this month’s cash flow target than the human cost<\/strong> of achieving it.  There is a question now about whether or not productivity gains and the ability to “remain lean” will allow Corporate America to maintain these historic levels of profitability.  I would answer that perhaps companies can keep this game going awhile longer, but at what cost<\/strong> to the country around them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have posted on this before, that our corporate management, as has a lot of politicians, have all become so narrowly focused on their own good as opposed to the greater good.  I have no problem of paying for production and improvement.  However, looking over what most CEO\u2019s get paid and how well their respective companies have done over the past 10 to 20 years compared to every other company, I don\u2019t see that they have really gained anything?  Most companies and CEO\u2019s will claim they pay for production but in fact they pay for monthly and maybe quarterly output not long term improvement.  They juggle the number, change the measuring stick, even the constant shaking up of the company in the name of \u201cchanging <\/p>\n

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I started thinking about this after trying to file some expenses and finding that \u201cwe don\u2019t pay for spouses meals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"BBS\"","block_context":{"text":"BBS","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/bbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51544,"url":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/ceo-pay-who-is-worth-that-much\/","url_meta":{"origin":8888,"position":5},"title":"CEO pay ? who is worth that much ?","author":"wd0ajg","date":"March 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I am sure he is a great guy and all but I doubt that he is worth all that? and on another point\u2026 the board?\u00a0 generally all boards are pretty much run by the CEO, so in other words he gave himself a raise and none of the board members\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}