OLPC seeks a CEO -- who was your favorite CEO elsewhere?

[John Gilmore]

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2008/tc2008035_429837.htm

OLPC is looking for a CEO.  Nicholas is more of an "idea man", and he
plans to continue as Chairman and cheerleader.  But he appears to have
realized that with its current management, the organization can't
outgrow its early chaos.  (For this I give him every credit; most
founders who aren't suited to manage a larger, more structured
organization resist installing a steady hand at the wheel.)

There are probably a few people on the devel list who are actually
qualified to be CEO of a nonprofit tech company like OLPC.  I
encourage them to apply (it's not clear how, which shows you how far
things have degenerated).  But I'm more interested in asking the
software developers on the list:

  ==>  Who's the best manager or CEO you ever worked for?

Suggest to that person that they consider the job.

OLPC has plenty of resources, and also plenty of challenges.  We on
the outside have only seen a fraction of them (like schedules sliding
out of control; botched distribution; support handled only by the skin
of the teeth; key people dragged around to fill big holes, leaving
other big holes behind them; diminished expectations in both sales and
technical achievement).  OLPC has already changed the world in a small
way, by teaching us that there's a vibrant world market for low cost,
high function portable computers, and reminding us how much leverage
there is in third world educational improvement.  OLPC still has a
chance to change the world in a big way, by satisfying that market,
rather than leaving it to commercial companies to half-assedly pick up
the pieces.  Steering OLPC back on to the rails before it crashes and
burns will be a job your favorite CEO or manager will never forget.

Give 'em a call...

	John