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Somebody had to tell them. What a bunch of cry babies. These bean counters are ruinous to companies. And no, I don’t buy this simple narrative that MBAs are goo
by socialdemocrat 6y ago
Somebody had to tell them. What a bunch of cry babies. These bean counters are ruinous to companies. And no, I don’t buy this simple narrative that MBAs are good for mature companies. Not at all. Look at companies like Boeing, ULA, Intel and others. Ruined by MBA guys. Why is AMD outperforming Intel today? Because they didn’t make an MBA person their CEO.
You need somebody in charge who understands the technology, product and customers well. Getting an outsider who only know how to look at spreadsheets and go to fancy dinners isn’t a receipt for success.
- nojvek 6y agoBoeing CEO is an ex-engineer. Boeing just made bad bets. A good ceo makes good bets. They have deep understanding of their product and the market. It’s a hard quality to acquire. Elon is right. MBA doesn’t teach that. You have to learn it the hard way.
- missedthecue 6y agoThe CEOs of both ULA and Boeing are former engineers
- baybal2 6y agoAn engineer, or not, it is not what makes ones work cargo culting. Not so few engineers have embraced the "big business" cargo cult as well. One many things which completely offput me from "big tech" was seeing tech heads having to satisfy the earning for seeing people speak big, and mean little. A price for acceptance in that world of big business.