From CEO To Politician

The 2012 elections represent the third consecutive two-year cycle in which legions of candidates for top-level offices have been active or recent corporate chieftains or owners of private businesses ranging from mom-and-pops to substantially sized concerns. If ever there was a time when the experience and competencies of a CEO made any of these candidates fit to take over one of these jobs, their argument goes, it is nowâ??following an era of economic doldrums, expensive expansion of government and fiscal mismanagement.