[ashkankiani]

I get nervous reading when people write exceptions and name "good" CEOs or "good" celebrities. Lots of skeletons come out later. I don't like to put people on a pedestal, especially those we don't know intimately well.

[nordsieck]

> I get nervous reading when people write exceptions and name "good" CEOs or "good" celebrities

Good CEOs are good at being CEOs. That doesn't mean that they're good people.

Steve Jobs was pretty famously an a-hole, and did a number of morally questionable things.

But he also took Apple from the verge of bankrupcy to one of the most valuable companies in the world.

OJ Simpson was a fantastic football player. And he murdered (my opinion) Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

It's OK to acknowledge that some people are good at one thing and are also terrible in other ways.

[HPsquared]

Funnily enough that's also often the issue with engineers - good at technical things but not so good elsewhere. There's a reason we all have different jobs.

[lupusreal]

Better to acknowledge that you are speaking in generalities and exceptions exist, but not to name those exceptions.