I'm getting ahead of myself and misreading. Sorry 'bout that.
I'd like to hypothesize that the situation in a corporation is analogous to that in the polis (that is, a corporation is like a miniature polis); and the CEO is analogous to the politician. Thus, if seeking higher office would be looked down upon in poetry, then intuitively so would climbing up the corporate ladder.
Or perhaps I should cut my losses here.
