[everdrive]

It's difficult in the sense that it's rare and much of it is out of your hands. That's a very different kind of difficulty than honing a technical skill. I'm happy to call it something other than difficult, but most of those engineers would not succeed in becoming CEOs -- whether or not they would actually do a good job at it.

[59nadir]

Sure, I don't disagree that it's not exactly a position that you move into just like that, so I get your point.