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Posted on 06/02/2009 8:30:25 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
Someone asked me to name examples of people who had very little experience being asked to run something and succeeded. This was in response to the thread of the 31 year old in charge of dismantling GM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262191/posts
I came up with three examples
1.Sarah Palin (who didn't have a whole lot of experience but was and has been quite influential in reviving some hope for the GOP while having success in steering Alaska through these troubled economic waters.
2. Theo Epstein, the very limited experienced GM of the Bosox who was named GM at 28 and helped guide the BOsox to a World Series title.
And 3. Two inexperienced guys at Google who thought up and implemented adWords for the company. The people Larry Page and Sergey Brin tasked with figuring out how Google should make money in 1998 were a pair of no-nothings in their early 20s. Salar Kamanger, Google’s ninth employee, had been a biology major at Stanford. His partner, Eric Veach studied computer science. Together they implemented Google’s now $21 billion business, AdWords. Neat.
So, what can any of you offer of stories of someone who wasn't all that experience but when given the chance, made things happen and was successful?
The guy’s who invented the machine you are using...
Obama has no executive experience and has been successful in pushing a socialist agenda.
yes! and that reminds me that inexperienced 6 year old Vitenamese boys and girls are responsible for making awesome $150 Air Jordan basketball shoes that even enable white men to jump!
yes, for someone with really no executive experience, he ran a successful campaign and won the presidency.
Cromwell, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Scipio Africanus, Alexander the Great, Charles XII of Sweden.
Abraham Lincoln. When elected he had even less executive experience than Obama, and just about the same amount of political experience. Great differences between the two in other areas, but not in their amount of experience.
I believe Thomas Edision was 14 or 15 when he started experiments that led to the light bulb (Granted, it took YEARS), telegraph, etc. At that time he ran his own business selling newspapers on trains.
Alexander Hamilton
Adolf Hitler. Just a Corporal.
And Hitler belonged to a linguistically-disadvantaged minority, too. He had to run Germany while his native language was Austrian!
The two Google guys did not think up AdWords/AdSense. That (their big moneymaker) was thought up by an MBA who had years of experience and implemented by guys with years of programming experience. See Wojcicki and Huber on this page: http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
could be..upon further research I am reading that that some believe the AdWords concept was stolen from another company, GOTO.
Scipio Africanus served for years in the legions before taking command of army in Spain. He probably had more combat experience (of actually actively killing) then any modern day general.
“Sarah Palin (who didn’t have a whole lot of experience”
Really? Sounds like leftist talking points.
“Palin is the Chief Executive of an entire state. Obama never was chief executive of anything.
Palin is commander of the Alaska National Guard. Obama has no similar experience.
Palin is chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Obama has no similar experience.
Palin is chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee. Obama has no similar experience.
In fact, in the last 18 months while Palin was working on solutions to the energy problem Obama has been running for office. “
While you are right in comparison to Obama, I wasn’t comparing her to Obama. Just someone who didn’t have the experience most people look for in a VP yet she handled herself fine. I swear, some of you have such knee jerk reactions where you totally miss comprehend the point I was making. And in now way was I dissing Palin.
John Lee Love.
Mary Anderson.
James Otis, Jr.
Geoffrey Dummer
“Just someone who didn’t have the experience most people look for in a VP”
What exactly are you looking for?
Fair enough. However, independent supreme command at the age of 25 was considered then (and now) to be remarkably young.
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