When your title is "someone saved the whole company", it definitely is diminishing everyone else's work, at least in the case of AMD. Like someone else mention

When your title is "someone saved the whole company", it definitely is diminishing everyone else's work, at least in the case of AMD. Like someone else mentioned here, Jim Keller always says "team work" and all when someone praises him. Microprocessor as complex as a modern consumer CPU certainly involves so many people that attributing it to any one person is just impossible. But obviously now we are getting into the topic of whether any CEO is that important to a large company. I'd like to say they aren't, but our hero worshipping culture makes it hard to break out of that mindset.