There is a subtext to the joke which is all too real, and not funny at all, which relates to why the CEO of a company is disproportionately important. In some ways it’s obvious. As the person at the apex of the organisational pyramid, the CEO is a vital cog in the wheel.
How did Steve Jobs know that people would love a telephone without a physical dialling mechanism? Simple. He believed it so. He had the vision thing. He conjured, in his mind, a result that could be implemented in a cost-effective manner that customers would pay for. So, when the phone without a dial was proposed by the then senior vice president of Apple’s design team, Jonathan Ive, he said “yes” — and the rest is history.
I’ve met Ramaphosa plenty of times and he is an extraordinary person. Even as someone who doesn’t always agree with his politics, I like him a lot. He has wonderful generosity, consideration and thoughtfulness, and he is enormously sensible about most things. I once met one of SA’s greatest visionary leaders, Derek Keys, former finance minister and much more, at Exclusive Books, and I asked him about the new Zuma government. Keys, always the careful diplomat in front of the press, repeated a line by former American president LBJ that you imagine Ramaphosa using all the time: “It’s better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in”.
There is no vision CyrilRamaphosa ,only long wish lists from Cabinet colleagues and Myanc higher-ups
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