For walking and a CEO, nearly everyone does learn to walk, early on, but only people in a tiny fraction of the population are successful as a CEO. So, maybe learning to be a CEO is too difficult? Maybe not!

First, only a tiny fraction of people have a good opportunity to be a good CEO. Second, if one works as an employee for a while, likely they will discover that not all CEOs are good. It can be easy to think

I could do better than that. You could train monkeys to do better than that.

E.g., once there was a startup fly by night small package airline, and they estimated that they could fly the planes half full and have a license to print money. Well, soon they flew the planes packed solid, doubled the rates, and still lost money. So, their first estimate was high by a factor of 4+. Not so good business planning arithmetic.

I don’t know if one could train monkeys to do better than that, but I have to expect that people in a large fraction of the reasonably diligent, competent, and capable population can learn — e.g., crawl, walk, run — to be a good+ CEO. In fact, I’m counting on it!

Watch the movie The Big Sky with Kirk Douglas and more: It’s about 1810 in St. Louis, and there is an improbable collection of dreamers who want to take a keel boat up the Missouri to the Grand Tetons and trade furs with the Blackfeet Indians. So, they were going on an adventure with no guarantees, no laws, sure to encounter lots of unexpected problems, and did, but, after setbacks, hard work, some smarts, they made it.

Good allegory? Maybe.

Was the story exactly true? Maybe not, but from 1710, 1810, 1910, and maybe 2010, a lot of people, as CEO or whatever, did charge off into the unknown with unknown dangers and no guarantees. Some of them did well. Heck, that’s the real world where about the best can hope for is just the opportunity. If you can find a better planet, then move to it.

When you talk it over with your girlfriend and wife to be or wife, with lots of thought, care, concern, sincerity, and passion, maybe your conversation sounds a little like some Dvorak, Rostropovich, and von Karajan as in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgG_-0DUMs

The whole adventure, the desire, the optimistic start, meeting the wife, winning the wife, encountering the enemies, getting magnificent victory over the enemies, and the resulting peace, maybe with some azaleas, can be as in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2-dLoWorUs

When are back successfully from the adventure, then take the wife and all the dear daughters, all nicely dressed up, say, in a limo, to something like the Mariinsky Theatre performance as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLoaMfinbU

The sons, take them to some of the games of March Madness or watch it all on a good TV!

You learned by doing.

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Read this.

BRC
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