<< Also, if you take out all CEOs with a lot of hubris, you won't have anyone in the pool. >>
Being that this is the Intel thread, your point is easily countered by citing Gordon Moore.
He was for many years the CEO of Intel, of course. And those who worked for him, or saw him in any number of other ways, know that he had a lot of hubris. Not that he was shy about expressing his views, or taking a stand, but modest in the ways I associate with classical definitions of hubris.
I've seen other CEOs who were like this. Peter Lynch, the former top guy at Fidelity Magellan, was like this, I believe. (I only met him briefly, for about 30 minutes while we were both stuck at the Dallas airport--Saturn V was there, too!--but he seemed in person to be the same guy with reasonable hubris that he came across as on Rukeyser and countless other shows.)
Ken Olsen of DEC was another example.
--Tim May |
