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Short of actually digging into C-level contracts and disclosures of stock sales etc, what are the tells that an executive is acting primarily to move stocks to maximize their comp rather than build company value? Eg: flashy acquisitions with dubious logic but media-baiting
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If financial engineering takes priority over engineering engineering. If investors are the customer instead of the customers being the customer. If the story is more important than the product itself.
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At a c corp spending lots of $ and time on designing physical space, at conferences with peers monthly or more often, incoherent communication of strategy, leveraging up to do lots of M&A.
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There are a lot of varieties of this bad behavior. But it all kind of boils down to demonstrating more of an interest in the status of the role than in the (human capital) leverage that the role allows to advance shared vision.
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