I'm loathe to criticize you or your position, as I clearly don't know anything about it. But I know in my experience, it's largely a true-ism. There are always exceptions, of course, but not all "responsibilities" are equal. I don't hold "informational" responsibilities the same as "personnel" responsibilities, for example. As much as I'd love to say it is so, none of the decisions I make on a daily basis, and none of the tasks I do on a daily basis (that is, none of the information I pass on to others in the organization) can in the space of eight hours wipe out 10,000 jobs. ONE PRESS RELEASE from Elon Musk can do that. It's an unpopular position to take, because the exceptions are so widely publicized, and there are so many prominent people in the news (i.e. politicians) whose agenda runs counter to that premise, but CEOs - actually, C-suite employees - are not interchangeable with middle- and lower management from the standpoint of "responsibility". That's not at all to say that the rest of the organization is useless or expendable, or that there aren't exceptions on every level, but the actual day-to-day of the job is something that doesn't get talked about much these days.