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To: i-node who wrote (436549)	11/24/2008 2:28:38 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573925

I've known a couple of these people in my life (not the 15k/hour guys, but highly paid execs of large multinational corps) and it is immediately obvious to me the talent just oozes out of them. LOL.

To: i-node who wrote (436549)	11/24/2008 3:18:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573925

Inode, I'm not sure you got my post. It was meant to be a hyperbole. Obviously some kid out of a Harvard MBA program wouldn't know how to turn Ford or GM around, but I guarantee you that neither do the current CEOs. They should give up all of their salaries and corporate perks and show everyone that they're serious about turning the company around before they start asking for a bailout. And if they respond with "But it's too hard," then they should step aside and allow someone else to try. Or the companies should just be allowed to fail. But we can't have that. They're just "too big to fail." What a backwards mentality. Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (436549)	11/24/2008 4:11:58 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573925

To find a person with the right mix of talent to run a huge multinational corporation is a pretty big deal. Given the sorry state of these companies, they need to keep looking... First-rate corporate managements are paid like rock stars because their talent is just as rare as a rock star's. For every visionary leader of the caliber you describe, there are many average joes who manage to climb the corporate ladder on vapor talent and run companies like these. I spent 30 years working for IBM and saw business after business destroyed from within by exactly these types of impostors. Some of them are worse than average joes, in the sense that they have huge egos and no real talent to back that up. They are worse than average joes in the sense that they set sail on the wrong course and don't take corrective advice until it's too late. and it is immediately obvious to me the talent just oozes out of them. Something is oozing out of these guys, but it ain't talent. Al