At our Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute forum, over 100 business leaders said what they really think. They're worried Trump is eroding America’s future.
Hire a lobbying firm. Have them go to Congress and tell them to retake the power they’ve abdicated. And if they don’t, you’ll fund their opponents primary campaigns.
Scared the hell out of them when Elon did it. You can do the same.
Gonna point out that CEOs don’t benefit from speaking out publicly, or acting much in this direction. The masses just blame them for causing the problem (regardless of who had the job when the lobbying was done), and we don’t believe in redemption arcs. Shareholders don’t benefit, your company becomes a likely target of the state and hence less valuable and able to do things. The party cronies might even do a boycott and pressure for your job (and then your head).
These are selfish people who have optimized pretty simple incentives. We must make incentives for them to act, or they wont. Speaking under anonymity or from an organized body is really quite good for this cohort. Now to normalize and incentivize more discussion. I don’t mind them taking more air time.
They need to put up or shut up then.
Remove Trump from power.
In case you don’t know how to do it.
Hire a lobbying firm. Have them go to Congress and tell them to retake the power they’ve abdicated. And if they don’t, you’ll fund their opponents primary campaigns.
Scared the hell out of them when Elon did it. You can do the same.
That’s an awesome approach.
I suppose the nature of the strategy would depend on the sense of urgency though.
Gonna point out that CEOs don’t benefit from speaking out publicly, or acting much in this direction. The masses just blame them for causing the problem (regardless of who had the job when the lobbying was done), and we don’t believe in redemption arcs. Shareholders don’t benefit, your company becomes a likely target of the state and hence less valuable and able to do things. The party cronies might even do a boycott and pressure for your job (and then your head).
These are selfish people who have optimized pretty simple incentives. We must make incentives for them to act, or they wont. Speaking under anonymity or from an organized body is really quite good for this cohort. Now to normalize and incentivize more discussion. I don’t mind them taking more air time.