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To: ahhaha who wrote (12015)	7/2/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Since we are on the topic of CEO's I just found this article: How to Be a Great E-CEO cgi.pathfinder.com Here's an interesting clip: Tom Jermoluk of @Home figures "at least 50% of my job is being an evangelist--with our employees, the Street, the press, my partners. There are up times and down times, but it's keeping everybody believing that there really is a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow--I don't mean in a money sense, I mean in the accomplishment of the vision." "I gotta tell you that the Generation-X people, way more than our generation of baby-boomers, really, really want the evangelizing," says Jermoluk, who's known as T.J. around the office. "They crave it--understanding what it is that they're a part of and how it makes a difference." That evangelizing is so important seems appropriate, given that the e-CEOs run companies built largely on faith. It's hard to remember, but just two or three years ago the Net provoked far more skepticism than excitement. "What you needed was to be a believer," says Minor. "You had to buy the dream. There was no money, and there was intense cynicism. You had to have unshakable faith that the Net would turn into something." I find this telling: Because this world moves so fast and is so intensely competitive, e-CEOs make decisions every day without nearly enough information. Due diligence? It's a nice concept. But these CEOs admit (without wanting to be quoted) that they buy whole companies without knowing as much as they should. This goes right to the topic we discussed previously: If e-CEOs had to wear a lapel button (and if they had lapels), it would say paranoid and proud. The word gets its currency from Intel Chairman Andy Grove's book Only the Paranoid Survive; the concept resonates with virtually all these CEOs.