[hripka]

comments welcome

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I would...but my CEO might see me.

[DManA]

I can't count how many times I've seen CEOs look people directly in the forehead and say "we WILL accomplish our goal." and then not accomplish the goal.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Everybody's faking it. That's the greatest secret to success in American business. ;)

[leadpenny]

Sounds like CEO envy. George Bush is a CEO and he's 'not the brightest bulb in the chandelier,' but he knows how to surround himself with bright bulbs. If a CEO knows everything that is going on, he or she isn't doing their job. It's called delegating.

[Stirner]

I've been trying to develop an idea for quite some time, of a positive scapegoat. An ordinary scapegoat is a person or group who gets the blame when anything goes wrong. A positive scapegoat is a person or group that we pretend is in control when things go well, and to whom we direct rewards and praise. Why have either positive or negative scapegoats? If we really understood how things worked, we wouldn't need them,we could just use our knowledge to bring about the results we want. But since we are largely ignorant about how things like businesses work, we find it somehow comforting to have someone to treat as if he were responsible for success or failure, and to reward or punish him accordingly.

[Zathras]

Andy Grove was hard to work for but a truly great CEO.
He only made 3 major mistakes during his years running Intel.

1) Putting Vin Dahm in charge of the first Pentium processor marketing.
2) Signing the RAMBUS agreement.
3) Making Craig Barrett his replacement.

[Apercu]

I hate to break it to the good "perfessor", but University
Professors (tenured & non- tenured)- but not all - have been faking it in much greater numbers than their corporate counterparts. A good example would be one Ward "Me Big Indian Chief" Churchill and the minions of liberal I-hate-America types that infect our learning institutions with their leftist nonsense.

[antienvironmentalist]

Am I the only one who see's another jealous professor?

[neocon1984]

My academic background (Ph.D.) and experience (15 years as a business consultant) leads me to the conclusion that many university professors are faking it.

Overpaid and underperforming CEOs eventually get the axe (with a nice settlement). However, that's up to the stockholders. Overpaid and underperforming professors are never held accountable. There is no system in place to do so.

[tom h]

"Your company's chief executive might be a pretender, and that may be a good thing, according to Stanford University Professor of Management Science and Engineering Robert Sutton."

I attended liberal universities for seven years as a young man, and I can guarantee you that a higher percentage of college faculty are faking it, than the percentage of CEOs.

Remember, CEOs don't get tenure and are fired if they don't produce.

[kcvl]

Robert I. Sutton

Professor of Organizational Behavior (by courtesy); Professor of Management Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

BA, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1977; MA, Univ. of Michigan, 1981, PhD, 1984. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1986–87 and 1994–95. Award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Journal, 1988; Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1990; McCullough Faculty Scholar Chair, 1992; McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, 1998. Asst. Prof., Stanford Univ., 1983–89, Assoc. Prof., 1989–92, Prof., 1992—. Prof. of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, July 1997-June 1998. Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Organizations Research, 1988-91. Codirector, Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations, 1996-. Research Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. At Stanford since 1983.

How the hell would he know anything about being a CEO since he has never done anything but talk about it?!