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Poll: How great are the business greats? (1 Viewer)

On a scale of 1-10, how competent-unto-brilliant are those of America's ChiefOfficer/Chariman-level

  • 10

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • 9

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • 8

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • 7

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • 6

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • 5

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 3

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 2

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • 1

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Total voters
    14

wikkidpissah

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I've met a lot of fancy people in my time, but most of them have been in either the arts or politics. I've found exec-types in those fields and what few business leaders i've met (Don Douglas Jr & Barron Hilton the biggest - not impressed) to be as flawed as regular folk and my impression is that they are largely either gifted-and-driven at advancing themselves personally or at their own specialty only over being great polymorphs or even gamespersons. This is at the base of why i've always had trouble believing in conspiracies. I'm curious, what knowledge of today's greats have you and what general score would you give to the talents of the people at the top?

 
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Ugh. Another thread about Trump. 
I know you're joking and i stay a million miles away from the candidate threads so i dont know how much its been brought up there, but let's discuss the Donald a sec. The way i heard it when i was a Manhattanite in the late 70s, early 80s, Trump made his dough by exploiting guys like him - hiring construction companies from the outer boroughs who overextended themselves in order to get contracts on the Island, then offering them a quarter on a dollar for their work unless they wanted a protracted lawsuit they couldn't afford to wait out. Somehow - all hearsay and i didnt pay that much attention, but i heard all this several times - this ended up with him having extraordinary leverage with the construction unions, of which he made great use. That, plus buying the entire industrial west side of Manhattan when no one wanted it and leveraging AC and virtually every other of his subsequent ventures off that holding. Is that the gist, f'real?

 
Of the two that I really have knowledge of, one is about a 3 and the other is about a 9.  Not really sure what to pick here.

 

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