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I am distinctly not claiming "Obviously X is the right thing." I am claiming that if a leader believes that obviously X is the right thing, and a significant number of employees believe that obviously !X is the right thing, and the issue is likely to affect the productivity or long-term happiness of employees, the leader is a poor choice. This claim does not in any way express an opinion on which of the two groups is right. (Also, the poor choice may still be the best of the available choices.)


In that case, I suppose I don't see that as a surprising or really even noteworthy occurrence.

Statistically speaking, it is very likely that a CEO's political views are at odds with half of his employees.


I didn't say it was surprising or noteworthy. Brendan Eich is one of literally billions of people who are ill-suited to be CEO of Mozilla.


> I didn't say it was surprising or noteworthy

I don't think it's noteworthy that a CEO doesn't vote the same way as some employees; I think it's notable that a CEO was fired for it. How many companies have done that?

> billions of people who are ill-suited to be CEO of Mozilla.

Specifically (and this is really important -- you can't leave this out) because of their political affiliation.




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