Intelligence Curse and Managerial Incompetency

Genius as Business Manager

Management is common sense, because it is all about serving ordinary people through ordinary people by an ordinary person.

Understanding ordinary people's sentiments, emotions and ways of thinking is the first key to the managerial excellence.

Smart people like Aristotle or Edison are less probable to make a good manager, because they are extraordinary.

Most geniuses suffer from intelligence curse. They assume other people are as brilliant as they are. They (mis)understand other people know what they know. They expect other people to be as perfect as they are. Most seriously, they are poor at forgiving other people for errors and mistakes.

What do you think,

If Aristotle ran General Motors?

If Edison had run General Electric?

-> You can answer the first question by reading the book quoted underneath.  

-> Edison created Edison General Electric in 1878, which was acquired by Charles Coffin, an ordinary person like you and me.

P.S. Guess what subsequently happened to the two gentlemen Thomas Edison, the great inventor, and Charles Coffin, the first of eight CEOs (so far) of GE? 

Answer: Edison got his name cut off from the corporate name while Charles Coffin became Dustin Coffin.