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What If CEOs Are Ineffective ?

I have always supposed that becoming the CEO of a company is not a random event. I always assumed that these individuals have risen through the ranks of their company because for the most part they are among the smartest and the wisest. Each one has individually climbed up the company pyramid to reach the top. In addition, I have thought that CEOs would demonstrate competence when it comes to hiring and promoting similarly competent individuals. 

At this point perhaps one should ask, “what is the main purpose of a CEO?” To me the answer is intuitively obvious … to make a profit for his/her company. Hand in hand with making a profit for the company is keeping the shareholders happy. Shareholders are typically interested in the security of their investment. They either want a steady dividend or they want the price of the company’s stock to increase over time.

Companies pay their individual CEOs big bucks to achieve these purposes. What should be obvious is that companies do not pay their CEOs to lose money. They do not pay their CEOs to make decisions that will inevitably make the shareholders unhappy. Shareholders should be confident that the CEO will neither make poor decisions nor promote individuals who make poor decisions. 

So what are we seeing now? 

First Target:

From BlazeNews:

Target has lost billions in market value since the controversy stemming from the retailer’s rollout of its eyebrow-raising LGBTQ Pride collection.

Last Wednesday, Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share — giving the big-box retail chain a market capitalization of $74.3 billion. However, Target’s stock was trading at $141.76 — dropping the market capitalization to $65.3 billion. Within a week, Target dropped by 12% and lost $9 billion in market share.

$9Billion! … Wow!

Second Anheuser-Busch:

Investor’s Business Daily reported that the market value of Anheuser-Busch InBev has dropped $15.7 billion since April 1 on account of the Bud Light boycott. That figure is based upon data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Jared Dinges, beverage analyst at JPMorgan Chase, revealed to clients that Bud Light sales were down more than 23% as of the week ending May 6, reported Investor’s Business Daily.

23Billion! … Double Wow!

CEOs that make decisions based on “wokefullness” are proving that they are ineffective leaders. Since “trans” individuals make up less than 1% of the population, CEOs that make decisions that are meant to please 1% or less of the population and simultaneously anger the vast majority of others should be fired.

To the CEOs of both Target and Anheuser-Busch, “Since you have proven to be an ineffectual leader …. ‘good riddance!’”

5/27/23

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