MJuric wrote:
After 8 years of "experience", do you think Obama could step in and run your business better than you?
No, because my business requires specific knowledge in a specific area and is only ~25% management and or executive level work. Furthermore no because for the same 8 years I've been running the business and that means I have eight more years of experience as well :-)
Can you think of any business where hiring Obama as CEO would not cause the stock to immediately plummet? (Other than a charity that relies upon government money)
I don't think Obama was a particularly good manager or executive. I tend to think that the "Cream of the crop" those running fortune 500+ companies are heads and shoulders above Obama and for the most part would be better at being president and CEO's then Obama.
That being said yes, I can see a smaller company 50-250 person company taking Obama on as CEO with no serious ill effect.
Obama was and is the least qualified person to run the businesses he claims were built by others.
I tend to not believe there is much of a cross over between "Small business" and "Executive" and or "Managerial" positions. Small businesses need "Hands on" and "Productive" owners/CEO's. They HAVE to know the inner workings and need to be productive in the production method. In fact I think the hardest hurdle to get over from "Small" to "Medium" is exactly that, shifting the owner from "Producer of product" to "Executive".
Obama had no real executive experience when he took office. He had very little government experience. He, IMO, lacks some of the characteristics that are necessary to be a good leader and CEO. The ends result was that I don't think he was that good of a president, I think history will judge him as "Mehhhh...."
I do think it is one hell of a lot easier to skate by as president then it is CEO though.
~Matt
Agreed.
The best CEOs can easily be good presidents while an Obama type president will almost never be a good CEO.
One Wall Street quarterly grilling would expose him far too quickly.