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I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote. I understand that Ellison, Gates, and Zuckerberg didn't graduate, then I said they still attended top
by stubybubs 3y ago
I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote.
I understand that Ellison, Gates, and Zuckerberg didn't graduate, then I said they still attended top schools. They had connections. MBAs at top schools are only really worth it if you're under 25, and even then, only for the connections. The entire list has almost nothing to do with having talent or not, or having an MBA or not. The key is almost exclusively to be born into an at least somewhat wealthy family so that you can buy connections. Or if you're not rich you have to work super hard and be lucky. Very few people really believe getting an MBA requires talent. I don't really understand how this connects to most of those people being talented or not. They all became the CEOs of enormously successful companies. Maybe this list would make more sense if you said, look at these awful CEOs, they had no talent even though they had MBAs?
Neither Eisenhower nor Fredenall were wartime generals before WW2. Fredenall actually became a general before Eisenhower. Both performaned administrative work and training between the wars; neither directed troops in combat. Fredenall actually did command troops in combat, although as noted it was disastrous. Important to note, Eisenhower actually selected Fredenall to command those troops. I don't really see how Eisenhower was less of a peacetime general than than Fredenall. It's a really strange comparison to make.
The article has a bunch of points it tries to make and I just picked two of them that didn't make any sense.
- Hermitian909 3y ago> I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote. Funnily enough you appear to be responding to the article's author. If you notice his other comments in this thread its apparent his reading comprehension is not at a level that produces productive conversation.
- stubybubs 3y agoGolly. It's just hard to get a grip on anything in it.
- AlbertCory 3y agofunny how "lack of reading comprehension" seems to be the favorite synonym for "doesn't agree with me." Because if I did comprehend, obviously I'd agree with you.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThat's funny, because I don't think so understand what I wrote, either. Your comments > I don't really understand how this connects to most of those people being talented or not. demonstrates nothing but your own agenda. The article doesn't say they're talented or that they're not. It says that most of them got there without an MBA from a top school. The part about elite schools and MBAs doesn't come until the fourth section, yet you've imported that into the rest. And family connections don't come into it at all. Secondly, Ellison had absolutely no family connections or inherited wealth. Read his biography. I can also tell that you don't spend any time reading military history, because the comparison of Fredendall (btw, learn to spell his name right) and Eisenhower is something absolutely no one knowledgeable would ever make. And yes, Ike made a mistake, but he corrected it.