Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2010
The biggest difference between being a great functional manager and being a great general manager—and particularly a great CEO—is that as a general manager, you must hire and manage people who are far more competent at their jobs than you would be at their jobs. The head of sales at Oracle in 2010 would likely have failed in 1989.
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