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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Most MBAs have an average level of understanding/education and training for MBAs.
Most CEOs have an average level of understanding/education and training for CEOs.
Most kittens have an average level of understanding/education and training for kittens.
These are truisms.
Most MBAs would happily take a $9 mill a year job as CEO. The vast majority of MBAs do not have a $9 mill a year job as CEO. So the people who have those jobs are not average for the general population, nor are they average for MBAs. Do you see what I am saying?
So a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company is obviously not average.
I have not made a deep study of CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies and I expect most of their transcripts would not be public knowledge. In my experience, people who have a passion to excel tend to try to excel at everything they do. So I'd guess that most CEOs of large corporations probably did get above average grades.
If education and hard work and excellence are not factors and most CEOs are average people, what do you think gets someone a job as CEO of a major corporation?
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Those truisms were my original point, thank you for bringing the topic back around.
education and hard work and excellence are factors, which I pointed out already here:
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I don't think I'm disagreeing with the workload, I'm just not certain CEOs as a group, are anything special.
Work hard, reap the rewards, don't have bad luck, there's nothing really special about the formula though.
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Originally Posted by woj
what do grades have to do with anything? They likely poses other skills/attributes that make them desirable as CEOs? If not that, what do you think explains the fact that they earn so much?
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My original comment was re: training, as you can see here:
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Originally Posted by dyna mo
You're painting a rosy picture of CEOs, I'm not sure it's fair, maybe it is, I wonder because I do know I've read research on Wall Street CEOs and the results are in, they are, overall, anti-social psychopaths, determined via structured testing. They care more about themselves than the company and certainly over an other human(s).
Also, that 20 years of school is really only 2+ ish, after college. It's not like med school. Or even law school. And don't forget- only a small % of MBA graduates graduate with an A average, most graduate with an average average, that's why it's the average and how others get the As.
So most CEOs are of average training and it appears are anti-social psychopaths!
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which was in reply to this
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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
spent almost 20 years in school, very demanding school at that, I was told in master classes they lock the door at exactly the time the class starts, you're late, you're out...
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