[doodyhead]

He is also specific about what he means:

"Technology skills do not necessarily mean hands-on skills, though they can arise from hands-on experience. It means simply understanding the technological state of play in the environment in a way that you can make exceptional decisions.

But the skills do have to be exceptional, even if they are not hands-on."

[robrenaud]

But in using "exceptional" in the definition, the author basically gets a free pass. You cannot make predictions based on his definition of technical. You only know a decision was exceptional with hind sight.

Ergo, the best CEOs are the "technical" ones, but not in the classic sense where technical means provided ingenious solutions to problems.