the CEOs personality is the company's personality Only in some organizations, driven by strong CEO personalities. In other orgs, the CEO fades to the backgroun

the CEOs personality is the company's personality Only in some organizations, driven by strong CEO personalities. In other orgs, the CEO fades to the background for maximum effectiveness. Mozilla seems more like the latter. A promotion to CEO carries with it an endorsement of the whole person I don't see that at all. It's not "monarch" or "mascot" or "most popular". It's lead administrator, with a specific set of duties that doesn't involve much (if any) electoral politicking, nor involvement in the details of employees' lives. it's especially jarring given Mozilla's role and mission Mozilla has a worldwide mission well-captured by the 'manifesto' here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ People around the world have far more diverse perspectives on how marriage should work than what's preferred in SF, or other techie/urban wealthy-world communities. People ought to be able to collaborate on the Mozilla mission, in any particular staff or volunteer role, without an x-ray into their stances on other things, as expressed with their own time and money. Also, privacy is big part of the Mozilla mission, and privacy is multifaceted. It's not just keeping things secret, but keeping things separate by convention: agreeing not to look, and not to act on, things people do in other spheres-of-life. Such a practice isn't just polite, it's also practical. We get bigger and better organizations, and cities, and nations when vastly-different people can "agree to disagree", confine their controversies to specific bounded forums, and cooperate maximally everywhere else.