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Re:Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft by stakhanov on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:52AM (#21595353)
A country doesn't need a king to protect it from falling into tribalism. And a CEO is not the king of a company. The Board of Directors is the CEO's boss, and if the CEO did his job right, he is replaceable. If the Board of Directors did their jobs right, the CEO is replaceable.

What you are saying seems to me to be completely groundless in every dimension.

Also: I did not state the antithesis "Satya Nadella had nothing to do with MSFT adding $850b to their market cap". I'm just stating "It's not true that MSFT adding $850b to their market cap is attributable solely to Nadella".

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Re:Satya Nadella Added $850B to Microsoft by cheschire on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:02AM (#21595516)
The king analogy feels like a straw man, and tribalism is a generic social construct used well beyond the concepts of nations. I didn't state the CEO is irreplaceable. What I'm saying isn't groundless, you just either disagree or don't share my perspective.

I like your point about the board though, and I wonder how the MSFT board specifically feels about Nadella.

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