He was head of neurosurgery at one of the top research hospitals in the nation. He was head of all the ego-bloated superdoctors of neurosurgery as well as the ego-bloated neurosurgery faculty at the medical school, and as such, served on several boards with oversight of large budgets and responsibilities for large numbers of medical staff and patient outcomes.
All things considered, that’s still a small number of people to be in charge of. The staff at Johns Hopkins neurology appears to be less than 100 people.
Thank you. That was something I wasn’t aware of, not following Carson as closely as others. So he does have “some” executive experience.
What new business(es) did he start?
What preliminary planning did he have to do to procure loans to start up his business?
What loans did he take out?
What property did he have to purchase or lease?
What remodeling and preparation work did he have to plan and pay for out of his pocket?
What consultants, tax attornies, contract attornies, and other top level staff did he have to hire and support on his dime?
What product did he create?
What marketing did he have to come up with.
What other CEO type decisions did he miss out on, by being a department head, instead of being the Medical Center CEO, or owning his own business?
How many jobs did he create?
How many households were dependent on his efforts to support their home?
As a department head he had to confront some cost issues, but was this his business concern?
If he failed would it have been his business on the line or would he simply have been let go, with no personal responsibility beyond that?
I recognize Carson was an intelligent man. I’ve not trashed him on that count or about his politics, which as far as I know, I agree with. And as for the work he did, I don’t have an issue with that as far as him going a good job.
The fact still remains, his executive experience is not at the level that gives me the assurance he’s truly been proven by trial by fire with his own financial solvency on the line.