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> There aren't that many people in the world who can successfully lead a large company like Alphabet. What evidence do we have for this? How many times CEOs fa
by gnulinux 3y ago
> There aren't that many people in the world who can successfully lead a large company like Alphabet.
What evidence do we have for this? How many times CEOs failed Alphabet level companies? What's your dataset?
Are you just making things up because it supports your bias that CEOs are highly skilled and it's not like almost any educated and privileged person can do their job?
- andsoitis 3y ago> What evidence do we have for this? How many times CEOs failed Alphabet level companies? What's your dataset? Logic. It is clearly way more complicated to run a large business that operates across multiple regulatory regions and that is growing through a transition from hyper growth, than it is to do many many other types of work.
- gnulinux 3y agoI see, so you're saying you have no evidence? It's cute to have a theory in your mind, an abstraction, but you have to verify it regardless of how convincing it sounds to you. For example, my "logic" says that you're wrong. I observe what CEOs do, I observe what other managers do, and it seems to me like most good managers I'm familiar with would be good CEOs as well because I see no complex, spectacular decision that CEOs tend to make that other managers don't. The bias you put into your reasoning is that good CEOs are somehow special, talented people and therefore in order for CEOs to be successful in their job, they need to be special and talented. But I have no observation that matches with that. CEOs I'm familiar with tend to be average people who were born rich, or got lucky and ended up being privileged. So who is correct? There is no way to know without getting data and verifying it.