What Ed Zitron thinks about hiring
Writer and public-relations executive, chief executive of EZPR, author of the newsletter Where’s Your Ed At and host of the podcast Better Offline. Writes combatively about the business of technology, the incentives of executives, and what he calls the Rot Economy.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Ed Zitron has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsDecades of direct erosion of the very concept of leadership means that the people running companies have been selected not based on their actual efficacy — especially as the position became defined by its lack of actual production — but on whether they resemble what a manager or executive is meant to look like based on the work that somebody else did.
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