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Did that United healthcare CEO have friends, who counseled him about his company's denial rates etc.? (prior to Luigi incident) (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 day ago by parody@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Imagine your bro gets promoted from VP of somewhere to CEO of a company with a lot of bad press. You grew up with the guy. Think you would take a chance at trying to exert gentle social pressure on him?

Probing my underlying thoughts, probably something about social checks and balances preventing violence

IDK if good friends have ever slapped it out of business leaders before when there is a market etc. to consider

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[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No idea, I've never known anyone who was VP or CEO. My guess is by the time you reach that position you've already surrounded yourself with like minded soulless monsters, those childhood friends have been purged long ago. Perhaps a family member or two might say something at a holiday dinner, but most people probably say fuck it and keep the peace or stop going to family events where this guy's monstrous stink sours the mood.

[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Yeah literally nobody with any remnant of a soul makes it to big healthcare CEO like the consulting pipeline alone already filters out human beings

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Your guess seems to be confirmed by a peer reviewed paper in Sociology, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell:

the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes--coercive, mimetic, and normative--leading to this outcome.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095101