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If your publicly held view is "a big chunk of people don't deserve the same rights as others", and your job requires working with lots of different people, then

If your publicly held view is "a big chunk of people don't deserve the same rights as others", and your job requires working with lots of different people, then I'd argue you're probably not a good choice for the job. A big part of any CEO's job is to be a public representative, and such a representative should not air controversial public views that have nothing to do with his job. What he believes in private, and shares with his friends and family is his own business. What appears in news stories is not his own private business, and needs to be managed.

MaxfordAndSons 9y ago
To be fair to Eich, he didn't really "air" said views, iirc they were brought to light through a $1000 donation to an organization that was campaigning for California Prop 8, which would have re-banned gay marriage (and did, briefly, when it was passed before being struck down in court). Also it was made ~6 years prior to his brief tenure as CEO of Mozilla. Not that I agree at all with the withholding of rights on the basis of sexuality etc, and am particularly disappointed and confused when intelligent people hold such retrograde views. But I don't think it would have precluded him from being an effective leader until third parties, likely with ulterior motives, launched media campaigns about it.