Post No. 3,556 - A new description for the worst managers I experienced when working: extractive

As I have continued reading Eric Ries' book “Incorruptible” (pub. Simon & Schuster, 2026,  ISBN:9798893312065;   I first came across this here (Substack);   Kobo,  Barnes & Noble,  Apple Books,  Amazon), I have been thinking about the term “extractive”. 

I came across this in the economic sense of extractive to describe companies that are greedily grasping all the money they can at the expense of the nations that own natural resources a few years ago, and Eric Ries’ book used the term to describe those greedy parasites (my word choice) that destroy human, social,  environmental, and financial capital by buying up and destroying companies for very short term money gain. 

Now, I am considering using it to describe the worst of managers I encountered during my working career - noting that some managers were exceptionally good as human beings and at their management job, and the overwhelming majority of those who weren’t were simply flawed human beings who were out of their depth ... but a number were deliberately maliciouso/osadistico/obombastico/oauthoritarian / narcissistico/oDarkoTriado/osociopathic, and one, from the 1980s,opsychopathic. 

Those latter were also extractive, in that they destroyed human capital (and thus also financial capital of the company, and human & social capital that  belonged to society) by turning their victims (and terrifiedofamilyomembers, in some cases) into sources of: 

• sadisticopleasure; 

• narcissisticofood;  

• kudos to climb the company hierarchy;  

• social status points to climb the social status ladder; and 

• warnings to control, subsume, expunge, and obliterate other victims.  

Perhaps just like, in many ways, others (including the unnatural persons known as corporations) described using the term extractive ...  

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

  

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