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Selected anecdotes are no replacement for empirical data.


I wonder how the researched biography stands for selected anecdote.

Roberto Goizueta was leaving his work at 3-4 p.m. daily. He almost never stayed till 5-6 p.m. or even overtime.

He managed to achieve this feat by focusing on three things:

1. capital allocations decisions;

2. people management (he personally made any/all personnel decisions for top 100 people);

3. managing Wall Street/analysts.

Compare this with current breed of CEOs/COOs/etc.




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