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Re:Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back... by pandaman on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:28AM (#6138657)
You don't need to be good but, IMHO, you have to know WTF are you doing.

E.g. movie studios CEO might suck at writing, acting and never know which end of a camera shoots but, unlike their game industry colleagues, the do watch movies.

Steve Ballmer might be an awful coder and would not know how reinstall Windows from an OEM disk but, I have no doubt, he uses Windows and other MS products every day.

Elon Musk might not know how to change a tire or adjust wheel alignment, but he does drive cars.

The video game industry is really standing out with the most management, not just C*Os, having absolutely no idea what are the products their minions are producing.

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Re:Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back... by yuhong on Thursday August 01, 2013 @06:07AM (#6139396)
Ah, the idea of the generic CEO or other executive that can manage anything, which I have said is a myth before.
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Re:Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back... by astrodust on Thursday August 01, 2013 @10:47AM (#6140642)
How does anything said there contradict that?

That's several examples of CEOs that are obviously at least superficially familiar with the products their respective companies make.

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Re:Activision Blizzard goes indie after CEO Kotick buys back... by yuhong on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:28PM (#6143267)
It don't, I just wanted to mention that.
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