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Re:MBAs as CEOs by enraged_camel on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:35AM (#14004842)
>>Satya Nadella doesn't give a fuck about a 5% latency reduction on the Bing landing page.

He might if you are a smart engineer and demonstrate that that 5% reduction in latency results in $100 million additional revenue per year by way of more users and more ads.

I just made up that number, but still. My point is, at the end of the day one doesn't need an MBA to draw the connection between their technical endeavors and the business effects of those endeavors.

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Re:MBAs as CEOs by marcosdumay on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:36PM (#14006086)
He is a very bad CEO if he can't understand that a 5% reduction in latency results in $X of extra revenue by himself¹.

If an engineer can articulate his companies business cases better than him, MS board would better put that engineer as CEO.

1 - Even if "by himself" here means just taking the initiative to ask somebody

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Re:MBAs as CEOs by allengeorge on Friday March 31, 2017 @04:33PM (#14007915)
He shouldn't have to ask. You have to imagine that when you're at that level you're dealing with a magnitude more problems, and rely on your team to inform you of changes and their high-level impact.
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