Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "Stay in your lane :(" video.

@short1der307 Really depends on the person, and how they approach the job. Look at Lou Gerstner; he was brought in from outside the company to help turn things around. While he didn't have prior experience in a technology company (that I know of) he did have an understanding of IBM's customer base. So he could approach the reorganization from the viewpoint of making products and services better for the customer. Now I may disagree with some of the decisions he made (I think John Akers plan to break the company up into independent operations would have been better long-term as an example), and I think he allowed too much of the old-guard to remain and eventually contaminate the company after he left (looking at you Palisamo and Rommety). But there's the big difference. Even as an outsider he had some sense of what the business was, and how customers would use the products. Your typical MBA is only concerned about processes and balance sheets, and cares nothing for making the company excel at their actual business.
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The problem is that people like Ms. Ahrendts are first and foremost MBAs. To your typical MBA, the nature of a business is irrelevant, and they tend to be very smug that they don't HAVE to even know or understand a particular company's product or business model. Milk products this week, cars the next, the differences don't even enter into their sphere of concern. There had been an old saying that "an MBA can run any company". I'd modify that to say "an MBA can run any company... into the ground".
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Ed Gein Which would certainly be ironic, if you know what I mean (not judging someone's preference, just that your statement has a certain irony to it).
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