It's kind of astounding just how absolutely useless top-level communications are in publicly traded companies. My company is far smaller and less important than Google, but I can still recognize the exact same brand of vacuous crap being passed off as leadership. How is it that as a people we've come to just accept this as table stakes?
Those 7 goals that he gave the company are... nothing. It's so painfully inclusive that there's nothing left to not be a goal. "Build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices"? What the fuck is that? What activity could possibly be ruled as conclusively in or out of conformance with that goal?
It reminds me of the brain-dead training modules the whole world is required to click-through as fast as possible. Everybody knows it's pointless, nobody complains. I'm left wondering who the hell is driving all of this corporate theater? What is this reality distortion field that makes us feel like it is an inevitable fact of life that these leaders can only communicate in banal, unactionable platitudes? How is it that the entire corporate world has agreed that the liability of slipping up or saying something too opinionated outweighs _actually communicating_ with the damn employees?
Those 7 goals that he gave the company are... nothing. It's so painfully inclusive that there's nothing left to not be a goal. "Build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices"? What the fuck is that? What activity could possibly be ruled as conclusively in or out of conformance with that goal?
It reminds me of the brain-dead training modules the whole world is required to click-through as fast as possible. Everybody knows it's pointless, nobody complains. I'm left wondering who the hell is driving all of this corporate theater? What is this reality distortion field that makes us feel like it is an inevitable fact of life that these leaders can only communicate in banal, unactionable platitudes? How is it that the entire corporate world has agreed that the liability of slipping up or saying something too opinionated outweighs _actually communicating_ with the damn employees?