Ben Carson at HUD hearings: "A good CEO doesn't necessarily know everything about the business"

[Miles Archer]

Just now.

Took a quick look at the live stream on Facebook.

I beg to differ. A good CEO knows as much about the business as any employee of the company.

But that's just my opinion.

[Freethinker65]

1. Goodbye HUD

[monmouth4]

2. A good/great CEO many times has worked from the bottom job to the top..n/t

[Yupster]

3. Sometimes

The CEO of McDonalds worked her way up from cashier. Not always though. Sometimes CEO's are hired from outside and even outside the industry entirely. I've always thought that was weird, nothing wrong with outside the company, but I always thought it was wrong to hire outside your industry.

[rogue emissary]

4. Their setting him up to fail.

So they can point to a black man as inadequate and not up to the job. Of course most of Donald's pick are incompetent. He'll be the one they kick out.

[Nevernose]

5. How many companies was he CEO of?

And what makes him think that running a government service is a business?

[FarCenter]

6. The CEO can't possibly know everything about the business

Does the CEO of McDonald's know the health inspection requirements to be met in every country and community in which they have restaurants?

36,000 locations in 100 countries.

[Grammy23]

8. No, he doesn't need to know the precise rules and requirements for every community.

But he does need to know that they exist and that the business can literally be shut down overnight if they don't comply. Locally we saw a restaurant (part of a chain) that was up and going one day and closed the next due to severe health code violations. They never reopened and eventually the chain folded, so I suspect there were other issues, as well. The health code violations were the canary in the mine.

[LanternWaste]

9. You appear to confuse a minute-by-minute update report with

You appear to confuse a minute-by-minute update report with full and relevant knowledge of company policy, procedure and protocol.

Very likely, your narrative requires that confusion. You may want to re-examine it, as it seems the catalyst of the flaw in your premise.

[Grammy23]

7. Many, many CEOs literallly started their businesses in a spare bedroom or

garage. They know the business inside out because they have done every job required to run the business. Even Fred Smith of Fed Ex knew how packages got from here to there and what it took to get that package from the sender to the recipient because he had actually done that.

Does Carson think it is a GOOD THING when people who don't understand what it takes to make their company run smoothly and efficiently are the ones making the decisions?

PS. When people who have NO CLUE what they are asking of their employees tend to not make great decisions regarding their work force and their business.