[jorblumesea]

The core issue, from what I've seen, is one of incentives. Many leaders at many companies are compensated on growth and short term factors. It's hard to find a leader that is willing to take a 5 year look, or even find a leader that is planning on being around 5+ years.

The leadership at my publicly traded company is a revolving door of short term hacks for promos followed by a quick pivot to the competition or another company. It often feels like the C-Suite at most companies thinks at most, 2 years out.

I just can't see many leaders thinking 5 years out.

[coredog64]

I would add that when it’s not a revolving door it’s frequently someone who used to be technical and still fancies themselves as an elite coder. That in turn leads to low level decisions (how and not what) being made at the top. As a result, you’re chasing “cool” rather than “best long term decision” in service of the ego of someone who is already being appropriately compensated monetarily.