Strongly disagree. Asking new employees to channel their bosses is essentially shutting down autonomy (a key requirement of happiness at work) and any innovative ideas. It presupposes that executives are infallible and have nothing to learn. It's death to run a culture this way. https://twitter.com/jaimenovoa/status/1320403732601896965

Sorry to QT dunk, but watching companies perpetuating authoritarian attachment traumas of "do whatever the executives say and erase your needs to center theirs" is going to be a hard no.

You cannot hire people for their curiosity and intelligence and then ask them to shut it down once they get to work! You need a culture that welcomes new perspectives, not just "do what the white men in power say." COME ON.

This method of learning -- "read everything we say, listen to our podcasts" -- is also brainwashing. It is the opposite of critical thinking. Just say that your culture is about preserving the fragile white male egos of those at the top ranks and go.

This is the way you build a culture in which one (1) POC raises issues and then the entire executive ranks turn on them as "just not a cultural fit"

Honestly stuff like this is why I won't work for companies where the top ranks and decisionmakers are 90% white men. All of their thinking is about how to preserve and perpetuate outdated toxic-masculine ideas of hierarchy.

This is why Facebook et al keep failing to read the room. By creating personality cults around their executives, they commit to forever focusing on solving for problems at the time of their founding. It's a mindset that cannot adapt to growth.