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I love how you simply declined the offer. What a balsy move.
I would have taken him up on it. If an issue is important enough to me to write the CEO of a company then it would have most likely been important enough to me to respond pro-actively to a meaningful response. Otherwise what's the point of writing such a letter in the first place?
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Which will still mean almost nothing, since past performance doesn't guarantee future results.
You basically just claimed that data analysis as a whole is invalid.
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My theory is CEOs that pay attention to smaller things miss fewer opportunities, and build a culture of doing so across the company. Look up Bezos' infamous "?" emails.
"?" isn't paying attention to things; it's telling other people to pay attention to things. It's building a culture, I guess.
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The post is readable to me. I've myself been called out for grammar and I find it kind of useless to be told my grammar is off. If you don't understand my post at all then tell me, otherwise I'm sorry that having English as a second language and not learning it as well as you have is not my top priority in life. I'm also sorry for my bad English, I'm American.
I don't understand your post, or at least the way I understand it I hope is wrong. You basically seem to be trying to win points based on your identity, a popular game these days, but completely out of place in this conversation, and everywhere really. I think you misunderstood my post, I wasn't bemoaning that everyone's grammar isn't perfect. I was pointing out that the things learned very early in language educatio…
Rather than focus on the content and the ideas evoked, just make a passive-aggresive snark so that you gain useless points by people who couldn't give a crap about the discussion but found the comment funny.
After that, you can just ignore that person's opinions since they obviously are too incompetent to write in proper form.
You learn early on the importance of good language skills, you also ought to learn how to treat people with some respect by trying to ignore the minor things and not showcase them off like you've found anything worth of value.
If you value properly written text over others, fair enough, but don't waste your time and everyone's time by making a comment that contributes to nothing but elitistic egos.
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How does one even discover the email addresses of CEOs (or board members)? It's not like they're searchable online and guessing common formats only gets you so far.
Rather than guessing, you can also connect to the SMTP gateway of that company using telnet then enter rcpt to: . It'll tell you if that's a valid address or not. Rinse and repeat.
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I love how you simply declined the offer. What a balsy move.
I would have taken him up on it. If an issue is important enough to me to write the CEO of a company then it would have most likely been important enough to me to respond pro-actively to a meaningful response. Otherwise what's the point of writing such a letter in the first place?
I got my first job in the tech industry by writing a thank you letter. Many years ago I met the CEO of a tech company at a networking event for recent college grads that they hosted. Like a job fair but with a twist. Having read Brian D. Krueger's excellent "College Grad Job Hunter" [1], I had business cards prepared. This was long before Moo.com so they were printed out on my Deskjet on Avery pre-perforated card sto…
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Why didn't you excuse yourself?
It was a "deer in the headlights" moment. What happened, happened and I am not proud of it. When I heard "The CEO wants a photo with you", I was completely pattern interrupted with the current thread of what I was doing talking to whoever it was (keyword: CEO and keyword: you) and just System.exit(1)'d (e.g. left with the PR person). I didn't realize that I'd not excused myself properly until after the photo op was d…
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But do you need to be an asshole to become a (successful) CEO, or does the job turn you into one?
In order to meaningfully answer this question, we need a much more well-articulated definition of "asshole". People's definitions vary widely. For example, suppose you see someone broadcast online about being very distressed about a problem and your response is to point them toward resources that might be useful to solve the problem -- some set of people would consider you an asshole for that pattern of behavior. Som…
In my experience, most people will accept feedback if you do it in a respectful manner.
You can tell someone they are underperforming without insulting them. Respect your employees.
Even when you tell people to read the manual, you can do so in a way that doesn’t feel insulting. There’s a world of a difference between “RTFM!” and “I believe the documentation addresses this problem on page X.”