It is the duty of the Chief Executive Officer to ba objective and impartial," Sloan said, explaining his management style. "He must be absolutely tolerant and pay no attention to how a man does his work, let alone whether he likes a man or not. The only criteria must be performance and character. And that is incompatible with friendship and social relation. A Chief Executive officer who has "friendships" within the company, has "social relations" with colleagues or discusses anything with them except the job, cannot remain impartial-or at least, which is equally damaging, he will not appear as such. Loneliness, distance and formality may be contrary to his temperament-they have always been contrary to mine-but they are his duty."
what do you think of this? And would such successful chief you Executives as Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt have agreed?