CEOs Talking About Hiring and Firing People Over Dinner
How a casual dinner became a referendum on talent
I had dinner last night with three CEOs I’ve known for a long time.
I have never worked for or with any of them. It wasn’t a fancy CEO dinner, we were at a local Buffalo Wild Wings watching a game, although we did upgrade to tots instead of fries.
Still, there was no wine pairing, and we split the check four ways.
These are those kind of CEOs – not stereotypical fat-cats, but rather hard workers, older folks, long tenured, they know their shit.
The conversation was mostly surface, but business snuck in, as it often does, and one particular angle stuck with me: Hiring, firing, AI, and productivity. Basically all the crap I’ve been writing about lately. This was not intentional. These folks don’t see me as a “writer.”
Which, honestly, is how I get a lot of my “dirt.”
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