[dfwgator]

CEOs most likely all came from Accounting, instead of from the area that’s responsible for the company’s success.

[NorthMountain]

People in management, particularly in executive management, need to understand that there is no such thing as "a business" or "a company" or "a corporation".

There is only "THIS business". "THIS company". "THIS corporation."

Executives who fail to understand what THIS Business does, what makes it unique, how it works, will inevitably destroy THIS Business.

MBA programs appear to produce a plague of educated idiots.

[leakinInTheBlueSea]

23andMe should be a case study… founder with background in ~core of business, essentially controlled board with voting shares, SV darling to $6B cap, slow, steady demise to bankruptcy in 4 yrs.

[Bonemaker]

Green eyeshade/pocket protector/pencil neck gadfly CEO’s instead of aeronautical engineers hasn’t helped Boeing.

[Fledermaus]

Usually sales.