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Ask HN: Do Physically Fit CEOs Make Better Leaders?
Do you think all CEOs must be physically fit? Or is the whole thing more for PR?
- CraigRo 2y agoWarren Buffett and Charlie Munger seem like good counterexamples.
- calrain 2y agoNo
- curious_curios 2y agoI think it’s the other way around. Give the average person an insanely high salary to spend on healthy food, designer prescription drugs and supplements, the ability to direct their own work hours, a great health plan and subsidized gym membership and see what happens.
- Eumenes 2y agoYou don't need an "insanely high salary" or "designer drugs and supplements" to be in decent shape. Stop being dramatic.
- curious_curios 2y agoYou definitely don’t need those things to be in decent shape, I’m just saying they help tremendously.
- Eumenes 2y agoAbsolutely. It should be built into a business continuity plan. Higher risk of death. I personally have trouble respecting fat/overweight managers or leaders. I worked for a really overweight CTO and he'd present at all-hands very often. The dude had to take gasps of breath to speak for more than 30 seconds and he was always incredibly sweaty, absolutely drenched.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoI think a problem could be more from an executive or any employee really to be physically unfit for the job. Once that bar is overcome any excess athleticism is not going to have a material effect on performance, or especially leadership abilities.