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What i've noticed is that the busniess line is not considered relevant to the boardroom. I have met many companies where the senior management is grossly incompetent of managing what their companies do... and i find it criminal. The people signing the contracts don't know whether or not they can deliver, and when things go sour, they just take the golden handshake and walk across the street.
I'm trying to think of credible managers i've met, people whom i actually think knew what they were doing: Sun Microsystems -yes, some of the british managers i've met were the most impressive leaders of men i've ever encoutered, as they used humour and self deprecation to inspire others, rather than blunt power tactics.
Sybase, has some good managers, Bob Epstien, and the business line folks. You really challenge me to flip through so many many managers and directors i've seen... to be severaly disappointed that clearly priviledge outweighs capability in our "meritocracy". Frank Zarb is/was no great one, JP Morgan MD's were bordering on criminal, same with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, similarly...
MIT has some great leaders teaching there. Gosh, a lifetime of meeting and working with managers, and not even bothering to assess their credibility, rather smile and act gracious to get a cheque. I guess it goes without saying, that anyone who wants to make a lifetime dominating a small farmyard, can't register much on the human being scale.
I guess it indicates, that in today's management, you have to sell out your soul first, and in later life, the hollow shell person can't ever recover the power of their lost blood, so what do we expect.
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