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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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