[fred_is_fred]

What Susan did and the other women and men who have come forward this year will have a massive impact on the business world and the types of people who read FT need to know about it. It will affect HR policies, compensation, career paths, job assignments, and the manager/employee relationship in general. Having your business outed as an "Uber" will destroy billions in shareholder value and may end up with you, the C-suite guy, getting canned, even if you're a "nice guy". You can be damned sure that all these C-level guys are reviewing policies and having internal discussions about this and making sure that they're not going to be next.

New rockets and computer products come every year and have been since 1969. Wholesale cultural shifts in business are more rare, more impactful, and more complex.

[ghostcluster]

I would say that there is a social activist moral panic that we are in the midst of, some of which has been spurred by social media mobs and deliberate narrative reinforcement. Fowler is just one example of it, along with Pao.

Another example would be the horrible way Denise Young Smith was fired from Apple, and James Damore from Google.

This pick signals more of the wagons circling, fanning the flames by the Financial Times.

[jubalfh]

ah, a Damore stan; that explains it

[ghostcluster]

"speaking honestly is only acceptable if it fits the narrative"