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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18207)3/28/1998 4:11:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
>>><To paraphrase "tech guys don't understand business". Its kind of a "gee whiz" approach like "you can't knock success" or "what works, works". That is simply your bias but it is not grounded in fact.>

It may not sound nice to tech guys, but history has proven this fact.<<<

So, Andy Grove, his PhD is in what? The heads of Sony are engineers. In fact, most high tech companies general upper managers have at least a degree in something technical, and some have real technical depth. Meanwhile, history has shown that the companies that went heavy with MBAs in the 1980s often capsized from the dead weight. Accounting for why you don't hear as much about how great MBAs are for a company anymore.

There are some great generalists out there like Gerstner (sp?). But those are the exception rather than the rule. And often, like Gates and Jobs, they have a partner who is a real engineer.

Cheers,
Chaz
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