Genius as Manager
Management is common sense,
Because it is all about serving ordinary people through ordinary people by a ordinary person.
Understanding ordinary people's sentiments, emotions and ways of thinking
Is the first key to managerial excellence.
Smart people like Aristotle or Edison are less probable to make a good manager,
Because they are extraordinary.
Most geniuses suffer from intellignece curse.
They assume other people are as brilliant as they are.
They (mis)understand other people know what they know.
They expect other people to be as perfect as they are.
Most seriously, they are poor at forgiving other perople for errors and mistakes.
What do you think,
If Aristotle ran General Motors?
If Edison had run General Electric?
You can nswer the first question reading the book quoted underneath
Edison created Edison General Electric in 1878,
Which was subsequently acuired by a businessman Charles Coffin.
P.S. Charles Coffin was the frist CEO of GE (eight of them so far) and eventually became Dustin Coffin.
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