The great entrepreneur, mentor, technologist Amr Awadallah told his story as a journey of learning and overcoming his own prejudice and narrative bias. He lost his job for so doing.
Very well put. It is counterproductive to shoot the messenger, especially when the message is so much in line with the human values needed to heal divisions AND are the ones Google itself says it holds dear.
This is shooting a leader for leading in the best possible way.
I was shocked by this decision and believe strongly that it is completely wrong.
What Amr’s experience makes clear to me is that Google (and who are we kidding, it’s everybody) expects leaders to adhere to different standards. As a leader, a public and personal statement like Amr’s can’t stand on its own — it’s tied too closely to the company because of the role he has. It has to either not be out there or it has to be part of a coordinated corporate DEI initiative, vetted by the team and supported by colleagues.
so your point is that he manufactured the press? for someone so powerful, it surely is surprising that his post only got something like 300 likes. Surely the media could've covered it or linked to it, no?
Also, the coverage in the press is INCREDIBLY unflattering of him. Someone who spent 30 years working in the valley, and was a cofounder of what was once a cloud tech darling, Cloudera, it surely is bizarre for him to publish a piece so bravely, one that NO ONE will agree with, just so he can act like a martyr and give a reason for being fired. For crying out loud.
Very well put. It is counterproductive to shoot the messenger, especially when the message is so much in line with the human values needed to heal divisions AND are the ones Google itself says it holds dear.
This is shooting a leader for leading in the best possible way.
I was shocked by this decision and believe strongly that it is completely wrong.
But you're missing the point. He was a bad VP, that's why he lost his VP job.
1. Amr is smart and understands how business works
2. Amr is in shock and doesn't understand why he lost his nine million dollar job
Choose one.
What Amr’s experience makes clear to me is that Google (and who are we kidding, it’s everybody) expects leaders to adhere to different standards. As a leader, a public and personal statement like Amr’s can’t stand on its own — it’s tied too closely to the company because of the role he has. It has to either not be out there or it has to be part of a coordinated corporate DEI initiative, vetted by the team and supported by colleagues.
If you're paid millions of dollars to do a job and you don't do the job you lose the job
Anibal - based on what? So he was such a bad VP that they waited until this issue to push him out? I. don't buy it.
The manifesto is old, the firing is new.
No one cared about the manifesto until the firing happened.
He tried hard: YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Clubhouse.
No one cared.
Then he got himself fired. That finally worked.
30 minutes after he got fired a journalist had an article ready, summarizing the long manifesto.
Coincidence?
so your point is that he manufactured the press? for someone so powerful, it surely is surprising that his post only got something like 300 likes. Surely the media could've covered it or linked to it, no?
Also, the coverage in the press is INCREDIBLY unflattering of him. Someone who spent 30 years working in the valley, and was a cofounder of what was once a cloud tech darling, Cloudera, it surely is bizarre for him to publish a piece so bravely, one that NO ONE will agree with, just so he can act like a martyr and give a reason for being fired. For crying out loud.
Look at the cover picture of his Instagram. He's proud.
You know the difference between a confession and a media campaign?
Buying Twitter ads.
show me the twitter ad and I'm sold
See the article.
Amr complained to @jack because Twitter rejected the ads. The explanation Twitter gave was "hate speech".
Amr then deleted the tweets complaining. If you ask him he will tell you this is true.
Sold now?