I think this severely underplays the importance of providing guidance and vision.<p>It also underplays the importance of credibility and social connections.<p>It underplays the importance of leadership, setting the right examples.<p>It seems like you can reduce everything at numbers and stuff just..works..<p>But the bigger the company the more management positions are political as much as they are business.<p>Having a very respected individual talking to a bank executive a new loan deal, or the town hall to voice a company's needs (see Jobs going personally to Cupertino's meeting halls to express the importance of their new offices and what they brought to the community), or to engage with important investors.<p>I think this is so discounting of the role of the CEO that the article loses credibility.<p>It is definitely true that too many CEOs seem to actually be void of any form of accountability, but that's a problem of our society at every scale where when something bad happens it's never somebody's fault.<p>But, to summarize, till a business is run by humans, great human leaders are a great necessity.