Originally posted by ursus arctos
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But I have noticed that a lot of the CEOs I’ve talked to got to where they are simply by working their way up in sales, Michael Scott-style. In medtech, at least, they usually went to college, but it doesn’t really matter where. A lot of former athletes. They aren’t dumb, they were just more focused on sports and/or getting a well-paid job than struggling in school for a long time.
Some medtech execs are engineers or doctors and some of them do have MBAs from Northwestern or whatever, but it seems like those types are more inclined to go into consulting, VC, PE, etc, than having to put up with the grind of actually running a company that makes something.
What would our country be like if our “best and brightest” went into teaching, nursing, public administration, social work, or running small businesses that actually do something useful?
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