While I think several of the responses to petervandijck are on target WRT Horowitz, Peter nails two major HN dysfunctions in one short post:

   - executive hero-worship
   - living in a fantasy world where parenting is not a fundamental activity in society

Part of what I like about Horowotz's essay is how his elucidation of becoming a CEO (which I have no experienced) echo my experience of becoming a parent.

BTW, the gender stuff is NOT elidable. If y'all weren't mostly men, y'all would take women's work much more seriously, and be much more skeptical about the way heroic CEOs fail to acknowledge the woman who is caring for their kids in the typical narratives of their awesome business accomplishments.