[TheOtherHobbes]

It's almost as if making shareholder returns and CEO pay the only indicator of company success creates terrible consequences.

[papito]

Juice the returns at all costs for a few quarters and then walk away with riches from total ruins, you say?

[tudorw]

This is the way.

[koheripbal]

Long term shareholder returns are directly correlated to the long term company success.

It's always such an odd criticism to think of "shareholder returns" as a pejorative.

[specialist]

TheOtherHobbes said "only", as in "to the exclusion of all other concerns". Where's the pejorative?

[seventytwo]

They key is long-term…

[andrepd]

Success for the company, at the expense of everything else (the environment, public health, individual privacy, etc).