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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] nictophilia@fedia.io 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every exec I've known was either a good people manager, a founding member, has asaloads of money, or some combination thereof.

Some of them were geniuses, but that actually made them worse at their jobs.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How does being smart make you worse at a job? I mean sure if you only THINK you're smart like Elon the Husky Musk sure... but yeah..

[–] nictophilia@fedia.io 9 points 3 weeks ago

Tendency to want to get in the weeds and do the work. The real job of an exec is managing people, and anything that distracts from that make the company worse.

For example, I knew a founder who skipped a meeting with potential investors because there was a bug he was figuring out. He fixed the problem, and he did it better than any other employees could have, but that's not where he was needed.