A condition that affects folks who become CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CSOs, and other kinds of C-Suite officers, where their skill levels in common, every day tasks (and sometimes their morality and empathy) become severely impaired, as the sudden
rush of power, stress and sometimes crushing sense of responsibility (hahahahah, okay, just kidding, it's copious amounts of
alcohol and
drugs like cocaine) start damaging the parts of the brain involved in figuring out consequences and making estimates, because planning around consequences and making accurate estimates are for the little
people and hoi polloi.
Yes, I know he's an ACCA-certified accountant, and you just saw him
flub trying to figure out how much
tip he was supposed to pay, but you gotta understand… he got promoted to CFO
six months ago, and what you're seeing is C-Suite Brain Damage in action.