Though "savvy" and "smart" today, tomorrow other words might be used to describe this type of behavior.
Iconoclastic and resolute.
Half-jokes aside, why do you think people will have a negative view of this sort of thing, in the future?
Its main purpose is to circumvent the short-term groupthink of investors that plagues all modern companies (I'm looking at you, Amazon). Even if this means the CEO sets course for shipwreck (ex. Uber), the people being hurt the most are investors.
They'll be seen as populists fighting the fat cats who can't keep their fingers out of everyone's cookie jars.
why do you think people will have a negative view of
this sort of thing, in the future?
Imagine a company has $x and has to distribute that money between investors' dividends and the CEO's bonus. The more control the CEO has, the larger his slice of the pie.
Or perhaps the CEO will decide he really feels like only working 2 days a week. Or he wants to appoint his idiot relative as a senior manager. Or he wants to use employees' time to run a political campaign. Or any of a lot of other things that he likes the sound of, but that investors don't.
Like Stan Lee said in Spider-Man "with great power comes great responsibility". If anyone who currently has this type of power abuses it, they could really do some damage to others. Uber's CEO is already throwing a lot of red flags.
We shall see what happens.