How to run a company
Well, I will start this post with a small note that I may piss some people off, and if I do, then this post worked. 
To start, I have worked for several companies in my almost ten years of technology experience and one thing has always boggled my mind: What makes a good/great CEO? I know there are many answers depending on the book you read or the CEO that you talk to, but I really want to know, what makes one great?
I have worked with some of the best and brightest people on the planet when it comes to technology and consider myself lucky that I’ve had those opportunities, and I hope I continue to have them. With that said, some of those managers, SVP’s and CXO’s weren’t worth a damn. Some of the dumbest decisions were made on projects and to this day I still can’t figure some of them out.
Why is it just because some guy in a suit and tie, has his MBA from some Ivy League school and has “worked on projects that generated X millions of dollars in a year”, gets the right to make life altering decisions for a corporate entity? Oh, and news flash for the ass clowns that claim millions of revenue to your name, there are these things called “teams”, and they work together to “generate X millions of dollars a year” but I don’t see them running the show. Of course, those that don’t run the show who helped make those dollars, actually have a conscience and don’t lie to get to the top. Keep in mind when stepping on people to get somewhere, unless you kill them with the spike on your heel, they will rise up and remember what you did.
I have always believed that hard work and perseverance had it’s rewards. I’m starting to believe that those bedtime stories my mother use to read have something in common with that statement. Talking the talk is one thing, but walking it is another, and I wish people would quit talking it and crumbling whole companies or economies based on it.
In closing, I didn’t want this to be a bitch session, but it has turned into it, but for any that have made it this far, please, leave some feedback or insight into your world, and I won’t feel bad if you claim anonymity when commenting. 