Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn, Author, Tough Things First
Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost, but not quite).
CEOs are human, and as such they fall prey to human emotions. One of the trickiest human functions is ego. In Godin’s blog, he listed power and exposure as being two ingredients that can make a CEO do stupid things. These factors tempt the ego, and any CEO with narcissistic tendencies becomes infected by his own ego. Inflated egos create barriers between the CEO and the one thing that brought him or her that power and exposure to begin with, namely people.