A guy I know positions himself as somebody who almost never had a job other than a CEO. Fresh out of university his first job had been VP, but four years after that he was already CEO and he never looked back. It’s hard to check whether this is true – he started in the early 90’s in the CEE. He set his price at 12,000 eur/month, anything else would be insulting, as he put it. In the span of our relationship, he worked for top tier tech companies and private equity funds, trying to adjust companies to the content of business books: his positioning was impeccable. His results? Well: he was average. In the tech business he was an Excel manager: others filled in the cost lines in his P&L, and competitors consistently beat him in the market. Nothing special.
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Self-worth and market value
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A guy I know positions himself as somebody who almost never had a job other than a CEO. Fresh out of university his first job had been VP, but four years after that he was already CEO and he never looked back. It’s hard to check whether this is true – he started in the early 90’s in the CEE. He set his price at 12,000 eur/month, anything else would be insulting, as he put it. In the span of our relationship, he worked for top tier tech companies and private equity funds, trying to adjust companies to the content of business books: his positioning was impeccable. His results? Well: he was average. In the tech business he was an Excel manager: others filled in the cost lines in his P&L, and competitors consistently beat him in the market. Nothing special.