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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (538539)	12/24/2009 8:42:08 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576691

The one thing you cannot call Palin is a moderate. Also, you think administrative skill is more important than intellectual heft for an Executive role? Wow. OK. I'm an executive at my company and I can tell you that my experience is that I hire the smartest people I can find that are passionate about what they do. The rest takes care of itself. They are the rainmakers. They make things happen. Of course, I hire good administrators, but I don't send those folks in to close deals and to crack hard problems. Oh, and here's another thing, I leave the day to day administration of my department to the managers & program managers. I'll take the smart, passionate person for President any day over the administrator who has only average intelligence, but good organizational skill.