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Re:Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving? by WalterBright on Monday January 25, 2016 @06:54AM (#10966662)
The CEO decides what problems to solve an in general how to solve them. It's like a general on the battlefield - and military history shows how extraordinarily dependent an army is on the decisions of its generals.

Consider how Microsoft has rather dramatically changed course with the ascension of Nadella, with an equally dramatic effect on the stock price. This is very clearly a result of the CEO changing direction.

Company culture as well flows down from the top, this becomes clear if you've worked for different corporations.

If the CEO doesn't matter, I wonder who would risk $billions in corporate valuation installing some random guy off the street rather than a carefully selected person.

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Re:Why Are So Many Zappos Employees Leaving? by danieltillett on Monday January 25, 2016 @07:53AM (#10966872)
Walter I am not disagreeing that the CEO matters, just that Apple and Steve are not good models for anything. I have seen far too much obnoxious behaviour explained off as “Steve did x and Apple was a success so I will do it too”.
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