Friday, November 23, 2018
What's going on with Ghosn?
Two questions:
1. Why is Ghosn in LEGAL trouble? He's been behaving like every other CEO and politician. Misusing funds and accounts to pile up stuff he can't possibly use. Strictly normal.
In political circles, "ethics" charges are always a formal way of removing a heretic. Everyone commits the same crimes, but you don't get prosecuted unless you've offended Deepstate. The corporate equivalent would be offending the board, or offending the major shareholder.
2. More importantly, why did Nissan and Renault EXPECT anything different? They are separate companies with some areas of collaboration and some areas of competition. When you hire one guy to manage two huge companies, you KNOW you're not getting a real manager. You're getting a NAME, and that's all. Your own managers will continue to do their jobs while the NAME helps to improve share value.
Ghosn is behaving the way a NAME is supposed to behave. Jetting around the world, being seen in lots of places. He hasn't stirred up the usual SJW hornet nests, racism, sexism, transphobe, etc, so he's not obviously bad for the brands.
If they EXPECTED him to spend any time in either of the two offices, they were hopelessly naive. I don't think these companies are naive.
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Admittedly this is an area that I know nothing about, but it strikes me as surpassingly odd. There must be a lot of hidden actions and hidden motives behind the insipid surface.
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