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Originally Posted by PBzeer
Sounds like a good resume for an Executive VP, though usually one looks for someone with a track record for that position. Not much beef for a CEO though. Which I think was the purpose of saying "run your company".
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Always depends on the situation. Steve Jobs had no engineering, design or management experience and still does not - other than "on the job". Woz invented the apple way before he got his engineering degree. The folks who designed the Mac hardware - some of them had almost no education formally, but they "understood" how things work.
In terms of a President who has to have a patina of understanding of 10's of thousands of subjects (or a veneer, whichever you like), the ability to have lots of other smart people around is a must. Not loyal people (ala GW), but smart people....who often disagree with you.
In other words, the last admin was "my way or the highway" - which might have worked if "my way" had even a slight bit of intelligence, forethought or experience in it. The current admin is "hire the best and brightest and let them do their thing and report to us, and we'll sort through the viewpoints and attempt to make the proper decisions". That style of management is more to my liking.
Granted, I never ran a big company. We are talking in the low millions each year - but I did it for 20+ years and with various types of businesses. I would be the last one to say I know the big corporate world, which works more on a dog eat dog track.