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I have come to the realization that, if you are a CEO, you'll have to be an asshole to some people. Maybe not all people all the time, but just enough that you'
by outworlder 9y ago
I have come to the realization that, if you are a CEO, you'll have to be an asshole to some people. Maybe not all people all the time, but just enough that you'll accumulate bad 'quotes' over time.
You are, after all, supposed to steer a company. Not all people will be aboard, you don't have all the time in the world to reason with them, even if you would like to.
- staunch 9y agoIt might be even worse than seeming like an asshole sometimes, it might actually make you anti-social the way being a VC or police officer does for most people. It could be that having thousands of negative interactions with people tends to damage your personality in some ways. People who actively choose not to be CEO, like John Carmack, probably sense this effect and want to avoid it. Some people might be better than others at coping with this. Steve Jobs might've been really good at this, or really bad, it's difficult to determine.
- outworlder 9y agoI had not considered that, it makes sense. The brain does tend to take shortcuts whenever possible.