Aug 19th, 2008 | survey

if you owned a very large successful corporation would you hire someone with very little experience to run it?



if you owned a very large successful corporation would you hire someone with very little experience to run it?


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Drowlord
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Texas, United States

posted Sep 17th, 2008 at 11:05 CDT

If I wanted to focus on other things, I'd probably let my mom or dad run it -- they would enjoy that kind of work -- while I pursued other interests.  I have no interest in the day-to-day operations of a large company, but I wouldn't trust someone outside my family.  So, I guess that I would rather put the responsibility on someone I trust than someone who is experienced.

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Aug 27th, 2008 at 07:44 CDT

sorry, but, that was not part of this poll question....i don't want what if's....the question remains as it is stated....so move along...

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Aug 27th, 2008 at 04:10 CDT

What if they worked closely with somebody who had been working in that organisation for the last 35 or so years, and he was somebody who brought in a lot of experience from outside?

Officeshrew
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Alabama, United States

posted Aug 25th, 2008 at 14:32 CDT

running only part of this successful business was not an option of this poll....

Ebenezer
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Fiji

posted Aug 22nd, 2008 at 18:21 CDT

The large Corporation I assume is already successful – so it must have a good tract record. Experienced people are expensive but indispensable if the organisation wants to achieve a change of direction vertically or horizontally or culture to battle competition issues; but a person with “little experience” whilst not normally expensive, would be more then ample if the organisation was trying to resolve a succession issue, because one could be easily molded into the culture of a large successful organisation.  

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Aug 20th, 2008 at 05:56 CDT

You wouldnt let them run the whole thing, you would let them, I don't know, run an employment program, management on a smaller scale, and then only after they got a decent education, like a B.A. in law or something, depending on what the company actually did,  and it would be good for them to have a bit of professional experience too. You have to know what is going on in the real world, outside the boardroom...

Cassidy
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California, United States

posted Aug 20th, 2008 at 05:30 CDT

Well shoot.Not if it was going to be detramental to the success of the business. But if it were my child or my brother or something like that, I guess it would be OK. So that they could learn the ropes and we could keep it in the family. Everybody's got to start somewhere.

Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Aug 19th, 2008 at 20:41 CDT

It would be about the quality of that experience as much as the quantity. I wouldnt hire somebody who has a history of running a corporation badly, (like all those banks that are defaulting or Enron) but I would not hesitate in hiring somebody who had a smaller number of years in growing successful organisations in a number of fields.

 
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