{"id":6971,"date":"2016-06-25T07:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2016-06-25T07:39:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:39:58","slug":"dispelling-the-myth-that-business-leaders-dont-need-to-be-technical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6971","title":{"rendered":"Dispelling the myth that \u201cbusiness leaders don\u2019t need to be technical\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.harbus.org\/2016\/coding-new-business-literacy\/\">Andrea Coravos<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>We expect our executives to have a strong understanding of the financial performance of their companies. Shareholders would find it strange \u2013 or more likely, unacceptable \u2013 if a CEO said, \u201cI\u2019m not financially-inclined\u201d and passed along financial performance inquires to his or her CFO. Similarly, CEOs in an increasingly digital world will struggle to say, \u201cI\u2019m not technical\u201d and hand over mission-critical business questions for the engineers to answer.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Would you, as an employer, hire an MBA who graduated from a program that taught strategy, marketing, leadership, and operations \u2014 but did not teach finance or accounting? An MBA program that lacks a computer science curriculum is like a program that lacks finance or accounting.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Coravos: We expect our executives to have a strong understanding of the financial performance of their companies. Shareholders would find it strange \u2013 or more likely, unacceptable \u2013 if a CEO said, \u201cI\u2019m not financially-inclined\u201d and passed along financial performance inquires to his or her CFO. Similarly, CEOs in an increasingly digital world will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}