Awein MBA

eastern11 · February 18, 2010, 10:29pm

if your boss went to ‘wharton university’ then your CEO has bigger problems with your boss than he realizes

Results matter, and if someone is driving profit, volume and share etc, the fact that the person can not write business letters well means nothing, they can always hire underlings to do that.

I had significantly better presentation skills than my SVP, something he openly said to me and to others..but his focus was growing and competing in a dynamic multibillion dollar business, working on client or industry presentations was not his strong suite and as he assembled his team he brought people who supplemented different areas and thus had a strong team to help him meet his goals. I had better cross cultural/international interaction/negotiation abilities and he often leveraged me for global commercialization or product positioning, but there was a reason he was in the role that he was.. and was successful.

as you said, results mattered, and he delivered results, even if he was not great at presenting or leading discussions

I meant “Wharton School of Business”. My apologies!