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Good stuff, but I'll nitpick on this part: If you've gone to Yale for 8-10 years and have a PhD in Business Management, then yeah, you have skills which most p

Good stuff, but I'll nitpick on this part: If you've gone to Yale for 8-10 years and have a PhD in Business Management, then yeah, you have skills which most people will never have. As such, they have certain abilities and insight most other people don't. I don't think that this is relevant to their ability as an executive. In the same way, I generally don't see PhDs being good developers or engineers. In some cases it denotes passion, but more and more these advanced degrees seem to only signal a desperation to get a piece of paper and an inability to escape from a fairly exploitative and abusive system.

notahacker 12y ago
It's also telling that having spent several years in the world's best business schools in addition to extensive years of management experience, top CEOs are quite happy hiring McKinsey to assign fresh graduates to undertake critical analysis and make recommendations for them. If there are research projects ideally suited to those with exceptional academic pedigree and the CEOs choose to delegate them to commodity smart-kids instead, it's a pretty good indication they're not convinced their academic experience was all that meaningful.