[RainyDayTmrw]

> The three biggest levers are (1) “N-1 backfills”, (2) requiring a business rationale for promotions into senior-most levels, and (3) shifting hiring into cost efficient hiring regions. None of these are the sort of inspiring topics that excite folks, but they are all essential to the long term stability of your organization.

There it goes. The mask comes off. The sad reality of it is that your average exec views their work, indeed their life, as strictly zero sum. We should not praise this. We should not celebrate this. If anything, we should call this out.

[hn_throwaway_99]

I'm not quite sure how you interpreted a section about CTOs managing their organization's costs - which, given that money doesn't grow on trees is obviously a core part of their job - with some pretty rational and reasonable advice as "The sad reality of it is that your average exec views their work, indeed their life, as strictly zero sum."