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.