[sdh]

Are these real CEOs or idealized CEOs? I've worked for CEOs who were horrible people and yet extremely successful (ie: running profitable businesses and having repeat success).

Sadly, the nice CEOs I've had were failures building companies.

From my observation, the quality that defines a CEO is that they are oblivious to their own faults and the feelings of others.

They are like bad dancers with confidence. They have no idea they look like an idiot or that they're making you uncomfortable, and if they did, they wouldn't care.

[modernshoggoth]

The thought of a couple of chubby assholes in suits I've known over the years doing ballet badly is immensely pleasing.

[scott_w]

I don't think it's that CEOs must be "bad people" (for want of a better description) to succeed.

I think it's more than CEOs have to be able to upset people to get the result they want. It also helps if that result is beneficial to themselves or the company.

[Centigonal]

>They have no idea they look like an idiot or that they're making you uncomfortable, and if they did, they wouldn't care.

Oh man, that'd mean I'd make a great CEO if I could learn to stop caring! All these years, trying to figure out how not to look awkward -- wasted!