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Once you go high enough in most organisations, appointment becomes political and / or based upon leadership and vision. Assuming senior intelligence folks prac
by duncan_bayne 11y ago
Once you go high enough in most organisations, appointment becomes political and / or based upon leadership and vision.
Assuming senior intelligence folks practice good tradecraft is a little like assuming that the CEO of a software company is a gun programmer. Often not true, and sometimes for good reason.
- aswanson 11y agoMore often than not, for a bad reason though. Put Ballmer vs Gates or Nadella as a CEO, or, I'd argue, Schmidt vs Page. And, in a crystal ball moment, I'd predict whomever follows Zuck won't be as good as him if he/she has no technical skill. I'd take a technical person who can follow the track of where things are headings "vision" over a bean-counting MBA or "leadership" expert any day of the week for guiding an organization based on technology.