Comment by fwip

4 days ago

The small and successful company (~100 people) my brother-in-law works at is currently self-destructing, specifically because the CEO is that exact kind of family-loyalty "father figure" wannabe.

Is it failing because he is being taken advantage of or is it failing because he is trying to take advantage of others?

  • The latter - he valued loyalty over competency (ending up surrounding himself with yes men), and demanded too much of the competent folk until they burnt out and left.