“WOW! Tell us how you really feel….LOL. I feel like I just read a “mission statement” from Jerry MaQuire. Great Job! Thanks for the read. “
~ from commentariat
Michael Klemmer on LinkedIn said what most media dragons are thinking.
Michael forgot to start his post with "Super Excited" as many human remains executive tend to start their posts …
‘Every post reads like a man (and woman) with a Bluetooth headset screamed into a word cloud and hit "publish."’
Amen 🙏
I got on LinkedIn because someone told me it was the “professional thing to do” after retirement.
Big mistake.
This place is a digital motor pool full of self-appointed visionaries doing donuts in the mud, yelling about scaling, optimizing, and disrupting, while actively failing to comprehend anything larger than their own reflection in a ring light.
Every day I open this app and it’s someone bragging about how they “fired their entire team at 6:45 a.m. to protect the culture” and then went on a ten-mile gratitude walk before raising $4 million from investors who apparently also hate due diligence.
You people are feral.
You’re not leading a company. You’re cosplaying a personality disorder and calling it leadership.
Every post reads like a man with a Bluetooth headset screamed into a word cloud and hit “publish.”
“I was boarding a plane when I saw a janitor smiling. That janitor was my first employee. I gave him equity. That janitor is now our COO. Never forget to believe in people.”
What in the fever dream did I just read?
Nobody’s humble anymore. They just say “Humbled to announce” right before delivering a victory lap and tagging 19 people who haven’t talked to them since the Bush administration.
I’ve seen better self-control in a barracks full of privates with an unlocked liquor cabinet.
And don’t get me started on the war metaphors.
Everything’s a battle. A war. A fight.
Building a sales deck is not combat, Jeremy.
You don’t need a “battle rhythm” to send a calendar invite.
The only hostile fire you’ve taken is pushback from your procurement team because you overspent on branded water bottles again.
Everyone here’s either launching a startup, scaling a team, pivoting to fractional strategy alignment, or breaking generational trauma through content strategy.
Meanwhile, I’m just trying to remember what country we’re in and why nobody seems concerned that most of our public discourse is being conducted by people who would fail an EIB land nav course with GPS and a Sherpa.
I didn’t spend three decades enforcing standards, writing war plans, and preparing for peer conflict so I could retire into a timeline where “being intentional” is a business strategy and grown men celebrate “Inbox Zero” like they earned a CIB.
You want to lead? Learn to make a hard call and take the heat. You want to coach? Start by knowing what the hell you’re talking about.
You want to build something meaningful? Try shutting up for five minutes and listening to someone who’s been there.
But you won’t.
Because that wouldn’t be “authentic,” and it might not get likes.
So I’ll be here. Watching. Drinking black coffee. And quietly prepping a terrain model for when the real fight starts, and all your personal branding slideshows get deleted in the first 30 seconds of a comms blackout.
LinkedIn calls it thought leadership.
I call it intellectual looting, grifters digging through the corpse of competence for likes.
Heh. Damned funny post and picture. Yep, this place is a loony bin full of lying sacks of dog manure pretending to be anything they are not. Leadership advice from people who've never led anything nor anyone, cringe pop psychology, "sexy" selfies (jeez, posing in a bikini on a business site? What were you thinking?), self quotations (new craze, and even more cringe than the selfies), bad technical advice, etc. Yawn! It's a lot healthier for one's sanity to assume that every single poster is lying through his/her teeth. This picture tells the story better than I can. I'm here for the 0.001% of users who need what I do; the rest is noise. If you don't need to be here, I'd say sayonara and go fishing.
Karly Kingsley on narratives: 👑🔱👸🤴⚱️ “I missed the part where blowing hundreds of millions in taxpayer money on gaudy, unnecessary White House upgrades counts as “cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.” Or did we just drop that whole narrative?”
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