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No… that the people running the show who should know how the businesses they make decisions for actually work.
The fact that google maps does not use a projection where direct routes appear as straight lines, that planes take great circle routes, and that there are hubs which make direct point-to-point flights less efficient should be no surprise to anyone, let alone the CEO of a logistics company, for whom it is literally their job to know how this shit works.
It really isn't their job to know how it works. Their job is to manage other people who know how it works.
I mean, I guess: if you think their job is to be a shitty incompetent CEO.
Im not saying they need to know how to do the job of everyone at the company, but they certainly should know what their company does and how.
So why is he there then instead of someone who at least understands the business a bit?
Plenty of takers for that salary.
He understands the business.
He doesn't understand technical details, which is something very different.
He tells people "go find the ideal route". He doesn't find the ideal route himself.
If a CEO of a large company attempted to learn all skills of every single one of his employees, he would spend a couple centuries learning, instead of doing his job.
His job being: Telling the right people to find the ideal route.
And he himself clearly isn't one of these people. And he doesn't need to be.
(You wouldn't expect Tim Cook to know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to either. Because that's not his job. His job is to hire lawyers who know every legal detail of all the countries he trades to.)
Though he might be ridiculed less if instead of posting on xitter he went to one of his workers who work in this field and ask them why the flight plan was plotted that way.
Yeah I was like if he works in logistics while not ask an employee, surely he'd have a CTO or someone technical nearby to grab?
They should know enough about how it works to not waste the time of those who work by asking stupid questions. But maybe that is why he resorted to asking the internet instead.
I mean yeah, he's asking stupid questions to the internet.
He doesn't ask his engineers, who've got better things to do than to answer his questions.
He likely thought "Oh, that route planning looks odd. Since I'm sure the engineers know what they're doing, this must be the ideal path, but I certainly am curious as to why that is. Hey X, why don't the planes fly in straight lines?"
It's a perfectly legitimate question to ask for someone who's job isn't engineering, but hiring people who hire people who's job is engineering.
Engineers are generally happy to answer their manager's / funder's questions bc that means that they care about the details and can make more informed decisions. Also, the manager learns who they can call for in case of an emergency where they need something explained.
I agree. I only added that to not argue with the parent comment about their point that CEOs should "not waste the time of those who work by asking stupid questions".