John Kay provides a refreshing balance to the hero worship we are bombarded with every time we open a newspaper or watch television.
There appears to be a natural tendency towards hero worship in human beings. We need our gods in whatever field of pursuit we engage. Einsteins, Alexanders, Beckhams(!). But the business world desperately hides the role of fate and that it may require less and less knowledge and skill the higher up one slips - except for self promotion and politics. It hides the fact that success seems to rely upon the sway of events and of course a quick flick of the hand during the rewrite of business history.
Now I'm not saying successful people dont deserve what they have just that the world of hero worshippers forgets to assign the appropriate weighting to chance and fortune in the make-up of a persons success.
Given the bulk of human mass slopping into every corner of the planet, huge levels of success are to be probably expected rather than causally explained.
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