[iamcrazyyounus]

It's a good point. I'm not sure if I ever internalized it completely. For example, "You believe in design, and you're paying for it, but you are not getting your money's worth because of the gap between engineering and design," could be used in a compelling PowerPoint presentation for a C-level audience. I've definitely seen it. It's comparable to a restaurant that pays people to find and buy sushi-grade fish because they believe in doing so, but it turns out that the cook is simply deep frying it without anyone seeing it. Shame. The knowledge of and distribution of talent are out of sync.

[hyperman1]

My first reaction is: This will never work. A C-level PowerPoint needs a problem statement AND a clear action AND estimates of timings, money, people, in simple words, everything in tiny baby steps. Without action, it's just underlings complaining. With action, they say make it so and come back a few months later and ask what the results are in simple terms of time and money.

But this is a strange reaction. I claim to think that people will solve things if they understand the problem. What makes the suits different?

Somehow, I excluded the execs from actual peoplehood. They are out there, making ignorable sounds like a radio, or doing random damage to infrastructure like a bad storm, but always without any real thinking going on. A bit like Eliza. Spending their time doing political feuds against other execs. Gathering more underlings or budget. Reorganizing people to other random corners of the buildings. Eating big dinners while talking to other execs. Creating a new C-suite job for someone they like.

Oh well, I'm probably cliche level wrong. Or maybe the AI people should target exec-level consciousness as a stepping stone to real-people consciousness ;-)

[20after4]

It's because c-level management jobs are largely occupied by psychopaths and narcissists.