If Ford or Toyota had a Steve Job or Elon musk they wouldn’t be in the same place. Listen to interview with Jim Keller, yes, there is a whole team doing the wo

If Ford or Toyota had a Steve Job or Elon musk they wouldn’t be in the same place. Listen to interview with Jim Keller, yes, there is a whole team doing the work, but you need a technical/management person with the credibility and willingness to make the hard choices and take risks. 99% of people hired for CEO roles will be happy to coast, take their bonus on short time gains and move to the next opportunity. Who is willing to take risks for long term success that will not appear on the quarterly report? You need someone who can get that job and at the same time doesn’t give a damn about what people think and about the money. Those people are rare. That’s why Apple doesn’t have ’another’ Steve Job, Apple will coast on the previous trajectory for a while, but won’t disrupt anything else major, they will play safe. The same is true for Google, they got their own money printer going nonstop, who would be crazy enough to take risks with that? The last disruption of Google was Gmail/GSuite and was started as a side project. How many top engineer do they have, where is all their output? For Intel they need to disrupt their own products to move forward, that’s why it’s hard to do, you don’t want to kill the golden goose. But it’s either you now or the competition in a few years. Man Intel was really sleeping on this one to be kicked that hard by Apple on the first release of their desktop chip. So in a nutshell: talented engineers are everywhere in those companies, that’s not the diferenting factor, good leadership is and the incentives reward those who don’t take risks. BTW: your comment is mostly an ad hominem with a condescending tone: mind of the laymen, incredibly lazy thinking, I love comment like this! Try with arguments instead.