Five minus one
Writing for BBC Worklife, Alex Christian examines some of this year's high-level business fuck-ups, in Five cautionary tales of business leadership in 2023.
The fabulous five are: George Arison's inflexible return-to-office policy at Grindr; Steve Huffman introducing fees for access to Reddit's API; Mary Barra underestimating union solidarity at GM; David Zaslav's cost-cutting at Warner Bros; and Elon Musk's no-shits-given takeover of Twitter. All are cited by Christian as causing ire among the companies' workforces, consumers, or partners.
And yet there's no mention of the absolute clusterfuck that was Bob Iger's return as CEO of The Walt Disney Company. Funny that.
In the past year, he's made or expanded upon many of the mistakes cited by Christian, and more, only bigger and better in most cases; effectively pissing off stakeholders across the company's several business sectors. Furthermore, the unprecedented failure of Disney's ill-conceived, agenda-driven cinematic releases—all of which were previously green-lit under Iger's purview—has lost the company mucho moolah.
It's almost as if the sociopoliticos at Burbank, California are a protected minority in the eyes of the communards at Portland Place, London. (thinking)