Yeah, just like regular employees are better qualified to run a company than the CEO.
No one is more qualified than Linus to run this project and he's done a damn good job so far. Has he made mistakes? Sure. He's human.
No one is more qualified than Linus to run this project and he's done a damn good job so far. Has he made mistakes? Sure. He's human.
Business history & Jack Welch disagree with you. Individual project success is incredibly nuanced and individuals - even in 10k+ orgs - can have massive impacts. Trying to pretend that outliers don't massively influence company success is naive, and MBA programs study these individuals because they are the exception and not the rule.
There's a reason we have Madison Square Garden, Rockefeller Center and Carnegie Mellon. It's not hero worship to acknowledge the contributions of individuals - recognizing a great general doesn't diminish the accomplishments of his army.
I think you could pretty easily adapt Tolstoy's argument to business and say that the primary role of a CEO is to ratify all the on-the-spot decisions his subordinates made as events got away from them.