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If you are looking for a contrast with a typical tech bro modern day CEO leadership I highly recommend the book "On wings of Eagles." It describes Ross Perots e

If you are looking for a contrast with a typical tech bro modern day CEO leadership I highly recommend the book "On wings of Eagles." It describes Ross Perots efforts to gather a mix of staff and hired guns to go into Iran and break some of his staff out of prison during the Iranian Revolution. They actually succeeded. Partly crazy, partly courageous...only in America!

baud147258 7y ago
I remember reading that book. In the end, I don't think they had to break people out of prison, but they still successfully extracted his staff from Iran
- protomyth 7y ago
  No, the prison kind of broke down which caused quite a bit of chaos itself. Revolutions are not stable environments.
  - cgy1 7y ago
    Apparently an Iranian EDS employee helped to lead the mob to break down the prison and helped to shepherd the imprisoned EDS employees to safety.
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  I think I'll add, "Are you willing and able to extract me from a country I'm located in (in the course of our work) while a revolution is actively in progress?" to my list of interview questions.
  - jeffrallen 7y ago
    Then you might like working for Doctors Without Borders, who can actually answer yes to that.
    - brighter2morrow 7y ago
      They're a bit controversial, there's plenty of non-controversial groups doing the same work without the baggage.
      - secfirstmd 7y ago
        To be fair, I work in the NGO space and MSF do outstanding work. Of all NGOs they do some of the hardest (Ebola, Syria etc) work out there. One of the few I happily give money to.
  - gowld 7y ago
    Are you ready to have your mind blown? Read this article from 20 years ago: https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/ https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/ Jeff Bezos: "At a certain point I was sort of a professional dater," he explains about his years in New York. His systematic approach to the quest for a permanent relationship was to develop what he labeled "women flow," a play on the "deal flow" [...] "The number-one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison," he says. "What I really wanted was someone resourceful. [...] ' If I tell somebody I'm looking for a woman who can get me out of a Third World prison, they start thinking Ross Perot - Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
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    - toomuchtodo 7y ago
      This is excellent criteria for finding a partner.

baud147258 7y ago

I remember reading that book. In the end, I don't think they had to break people out of prison, but they still successfully extracted his staff from Iran

protomyth 7y ago
No, the prison kind of broke down which caused quite a bit of chaos itself. Revolutions are not stable environments.
- cgy1 7y ago
  Apparently an Iranian EDS employee helped to lead the mob to break down the prison and helped to shepherd the imprisoned EDS employees to safety.
toomuchtodo 7y ago
I think I'll add, "Are you willing and able to extract me from a country I'm located in (in the course of our work) while a revolution is actively in progress?" to my list of interview questions.
- jeffrallen 7y ago
  Then you might like working for Doctors Without Borders, who can actually answer yes to that.
  - brighter2morrow 7y ago
    They're a bit controversial, there's plenty of non-controversial groups doing the same work without the baggage.
    - secfirstmd 7y ago
      To be fair, I work in the NGO space and MSF do outstanding work. Of all NGOs they do some of the hardest (Ebola, Syria etc) work out there. One of the few I happily give money to.
- gowld 7y ago
  Are you ready to have your mind blown? Read this article from 20 years ago: https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/ https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/ Jeff Bezos: "At a certain point I was sort of a professional dater," he explains about his years in New York. His systematic approach to the quest for a permanent relationship was to develop what he labeled "women flow," a play on the "deal flow" [...] "The number-one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison," he says. "What I really wanted was someone resourceful. [...] ' If I tell somebody I'm looking for a woman who can get me out of a Third World prison, they start thinking Ross Perot - Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
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  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    This is excellent criteria for finding a partner.