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Re:Au Revoir by maerF0x0 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:58PM (#16704197)
All of these people had to learn their way up the scale. I see little reason a founder CEO couldn't learn their way up the scale too.
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Re:Au Revoir by zbentley on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:39AM (#16704996)
> a founder CEO couldn't learn their way up the scale

OK, but many (most, if others' claims in this thread are to be believed) of them don't do so. That contradicts your original claim, unless you want to say that many/most CEOs are not "reasonably smart", which is dubious at best and armchair quarterbacking at worst.

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Re:Au Revoir by maerF0x0 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @01:26PM (#16708962)
This is a good point. What's the pragmatic difference between can and does. Others have pointed out a good point too that many CEOs are so busy focusing on other things that they fail to do the learning they need to, effectively falling behind the needs of the company.

I mostly am rejecting the knee jerk reaction of "Company has grown 100x and now requires a new CEO" ... Who knew this would spark so much discussion?

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