Stargazer’s perspective of man in the corner office

By Alec Hogg

Getting out of the City brings benefits. One is actually being able to see Scorpio and Orion, the Milky Way and the Southern Cross – something the city’s light and other pollution makes impossible.

Unlike our forefathers, we are no longer able to tilt our necks for a reminder of man’s place in the universe. There are, of course, other ways of keeping perspective. Like having another read of Shelley’s Ozymandias. And then mulling over his contemporary equivalents, those mighty occupants of corporate corner offices.

In the 1990s, a CEO’s term of office averaged ten years. Now it’s five. Global consulting group Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), which tracks turnover of CEOs at the world’s 2 500 biggest companies, tells us it’s running at just under 15% a year. Which means this time next year, one of every seven bosses will be gone. The bigger the company, the greater the prospect of change.

Ours is a transient species. In a decade from now, most of us will be hard-pressed to recall the names of today’s seemingly omnipotent personalities. Best we all remember that. Stargazing helps.

Ike Jakson replies:
I am fortunate to live out in the country in an area almost entirely pollution free; in fact entirely free from the pressures of the
maddening crowds of the city.

The electricity cuts give you the chance to walk out on the lawn at night when it is pitch dark where you would have the odd streetlight in every block on and none of the slight glare over the areas of the nearest two towns when their streetlights are on.

Summer nights with no clouds and as I have said no pollution you are almost lifted up by nature to touch the stars. It’s almost unnerving to go back in when the power suddenly comes back and you switch the computer on to see politics on the monitor. 

Come visit Redelinghuys WC when it gets too much for you in the city. There is plenty space for a blanket on my back lawn.

Oh well, do tell us who will get the White House 19 months from now.

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