They are powerfully guided by a singular objective function – there is no confusion.
"As ghoulish as that sounds, when a company of that size focuses on a singular objective like that," said the ex-employee, "it's an incredibly tough thing to fight against".
However, even if we accept that having a singular objective is optimal, we're still left facing a really important question: why does that objective have to be shareholder value maximization?
Let's give the pursuit of each objective function – shareholder value, customers, employees – a chance to compete for success rather than swallowing the fallacious argument that having a singular objective function means that it has to be shareholder value maximization.
In modern times physicians are trained and socialized with a nearly singular objective, to cure.
Anything that distracts us from that singular objective is destructive to our children and the nation.
To be fair, there was a singular, initial objective to the #OccupyWallStreet protest when AdBusters called for 20,000 people to take over Wall Street back in July.
"My singular objective was to be the best climber in the world," he says.
If organized militancy oriented towards a singular and despotic truth were to emerge once more, perhaps neo-Foucaldian critique, as a research project practised by a militant scholarly elite, might be appropriate again.
Characterizing Apollo as a program, a huge complex program with a very singular simple objective, that kind of tied everybody on it together.
There were days, many of them, when I didn't want to be around, period". If that sounds to you like a faux suicide note, well, it sounds like one to me (first-person-singular objective) as well.
