The Boss

[ShadowB]

Just watched Undercover Boss...Late I know BUT I wish EVERY boss would take a look at this show! I know I could have sure used it....

 

[firepoint525]

I wish some radio CEOs would go to work at some of their own stations! That is, assuming that any of those stations still have any staff left still working for them!

 

[techguy1975]

its a great show... You can really see how out of touch corporate America is out of touch with "Joe the Plumber". I hope the show does well

 

[Nock]

I wish the CEO of the company I currently work for would do the same. The stuff we as associates put up with from a person left in charge. You try the HR way to solve it and told it's your problem. Would love the president / CEO of the company I work for to come in under cover. They send you to an orientation that is full of the warm and fuzzies and once you step onto the asphalt of the parking lot of the Taj Mahal, it all goes out the window. Not about radio but radio probably being run the same way.

Nock

 

[jetfli]

Most radio CEOs would have no idea of what to do in a studio, much the same way that few CEOs of any company would know how to do the professional or support jobs in their companies. It's because too few company leaders get to the top today by rising up through the ranks of the company. As a result, they don't have any real investment in the company or its employees, products, and services. Somewhere along the way someone decided that management is a job skill that could be taken from place to place. You have to look no further than one of this country's most successful companies, Apple, to see how important having real investment in the company is. I once read an article, and I'm paraphrasing here, that Steve Jobs felt Apple became so successful despite stiff competition from the big PC companies because everyone at Apple loves what they do and the products they make. He said if he and his top management group lost their jobs tomorrow, they'd be looking for work somewhere else in the same industry, where as people like Michael Dell would be looking to lead another big corporation like Pillsbury or somesuch. When there's no real buy-in to the products or services or employees of a company, it's just another job to the person sitting at the top, and those CEOs are far more concerned about themselves than the company. Why don't boards realize that? Two major things have led to this country's economic woes: (1) CEOs and top level management like I've just described, and (2) companies who make their money from buying and selling other companies rather than from making products and services. Anytime you're dealing with people who only care about the bottom line and how much of a bonus they'll get, you've got a company on it's way to ruin. And that's most of them today...

 

[olebud]

Doesn't have to be CEO. GMs and SMs with a former station had the same "I know more about it than you do, so we will do it MY way." Was told if we needed another news person, go down to the courthouse and find someone in the bathroom, they could do it. Chewed out news rooom leaders for not having same stories as t-v in the morning. wasn't bright enough to listen day before and hear that we'd had the story the day before. I could go on and on, but these are just a couple. On the good side, CEOs and other types at that level left us alone. but that was more than 8 years ago.

 

[romer979fm]

Was told if we needed another news person, go down to the courthouse and find someone in the bathroom, they could do it

just curious: did you ever get to navigate the boat?

 

[firepoint525]

To add to what jetfli said, some of these guys never even had to work for a living. They never even started a company. They just inherited their parents' business(es). Can you say "silver spoon"?

 

[Sgt Preston]

Doesn't have to be CEO. GMs and SMs with a former station had the same "I know more about it than you do, so we will do it MY way." ...................

I always found that the best MANAGERS were former DJs & PDs...