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Having often hired people based on general ability, not specific skills-Gates himself being a prime example - Rockefeller acceded to the choice.
In 1995, Daniel Goleman’s influential book Emotional Intelligence asserted that it is not cognitive intelligence but rather emotional intelligence that guarantees success in life and business. Goleman went so far as to suggest a measurement tool that could quantify a person’s emotional intelligence. Similar to IQ tests for intellectual prowess, we can now measure a person’s emotional intelligence with an EQ score. While neither IQ nor EQ should be the overriding factor when considering a new hire, a wise CEO looks at both in assessing a candidate’s personality.
A CEO Only Does Three Things
Trey Taylor
First of all, I pay more attention to the multiples paid by the financial buyers: strategics underwrite M&A deals to a lower return hurdle (most commonly, corporate finance and M&A arms of corporates get approval to execute any deal that generates a return in excess of their own cost of capital). Corporations also have the benefit of either real or perceived synergies and can sometimes get away more easily with embarrassing write-offs as the examples of Microsoft and HP above suggest.
The Private Equity Toolkit
Tamara Sakovska
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