Harvard Business Review: Stop paying executives for performance

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@doctorow

One Harper Collins executive in the 1980s killed virtually all the books in the pipeline, radically cutting costs and improving the bottom line – that year. The next year, the publisher had no new books to sell, and profits collapsed, but she was already long gone, with her bonus in hand.

This is exactly why you should NEVER hire an executive who can’t complete XCOM 2 or Enemy Unknown, on the hardest difficulty, to demonstrate their strategic planning and long-term ability to manage competing resource demands.

Okay, maybe a VP can do the combat missions for them.