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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Are you not ignoring the dynamics that surround these positions. Are these dumb people, or are they people incentivized to do the less than ideal things. Such as pressure from their owners and average tenure of a GM.
I would put forth that I don't think these are dumb people. I think the system and incentives create these behaviors.
We can all sit here and say if we were a GM we would take a long-view and make rationale choices for that, but if your owner says "i want to win now" what do you do?
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Incentivizes them AND necessitates them. The latter is the killer, and the latter is why they want to reduce contract lengths.
As Cliff said (love when we agree, best friends!), it probably feels good to know they took a principled, long term view during their time, but I doubt it feels that good without a paycheque as they turned their contending team into one that isn’t but might contend better 7 years later when everyone is 7 years older.
I get the dreamy notion of things, but again, GMs have to operate within the confines of reality and many of them out of necessity have to be more focused on right now than 8 years from now. This change helps them do that without the heightened risk.