Management and Leadership Failures

Comments in this cluster overwhelmingly blame incompetent CEOs, executives, and poor management for company declines, bad decisions, and operational failures.

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Sample Comments

AHOHA Nov 9, 2022 View on HN

Typical, CEO lack of vision and mistakes paid by talented employees.

Giorgi May 10, 2023 View on HN

Wonder if they had management change recently? These kind of mishaps happen when CEO is replaced by the dumber one.

jseban Nov 3, 2021 View on HN

In what company are management not leading

giancarlostoro Aug 22, 2025 View on HN

Bad management trickles down from the top usually.

sundaeofshock Sep 27, 2023 View on HN

Hmmm… that’s a very interesting take an article that suggests the hubris of the CEO ended up destroying the company he was hired to lead.

commandlinefan Apr 8, 2022 View on HN

It's the company leadership's fault for judging everybody on an easily gameable metric rather than spending any time managing.

_y5hn Apr 14, 2021 View on HN

Fact is any company will ever be as good as their executives. People are people, so there's no reason to believe in magic fairy tales. From outside this looks like manager panic, on both sides.

fortran77 Apr 28, 2020 View on HN

It shows they don't vet their CEOs very well.

nkrisc Feb 16, 2018 View on HN

Sounds like a company that would keep such an executive on board deserves to fail.

nine_zeros Sep 1, 2023 View on HN

Poor execution by execs and upper management. They will never accept their own failures.