I think both of them are needed for chief executives. at first they need some training secession in order to know the fundamental and theoretical aspects of work and after that they should make all the things that they learn into practice to become well experienced in the field that they want.
Sometimes training does not provide all the intricacies of a very good CEO. Experience on the other hand provide exposure to a lot more. Hence, I'll go for experience over trained.
As we all know that experiences is the greatest teachers & due to the experience we can learn something new in our assignment which we may contribute for our working performance.
Since CEO is responsible for the strategic vision of the company and he/she must recognize the behavourial patterns of each type of organization they serve, it is important to have experienced CEOs. Experienced CEOs will be more adaptive to structural and economic changes in a company. Whereas a specifically trained CEO may not be as reactive to changes in the company and economy.
Experienced executives would perform better especially if they came up the ranks and learned the ropes of how the organization works starting from the lowest level. No amount of text education, training or seminars can equal practical experience.
There is a Russian proverb: "For one beaten, two unbeaten give | За одного битого двух небитых дают". Training is preparing to act. But the real learning is practice. Spinoza said (not literary), that learning is important, because it leads to understanding which makes a man free. Yet, an experienced executive understands the value of a character, whereas a trained one, besides everything else has to spend years to understand it. Executive jobs aren't a path just for young, it ought to be a path to success, whoever can make it assured.
Who would you like to make a complicated surgery on you, or your relative - a bright just graduated medical student, or a head of a surgical group having 10-20 years of experience?
Educated fellows are found everywhere but experienced are rarely found. Education are bought but experience are acquired. I will go for experience CEO.
If one has experience but no training, one should take the initiative and practice life-long learning and engage in training. This should be something we all practice anyway.
If one is trained but has no experience, develop strategies to prove / demonstrate how you can apply your training - someone will give you a chance.
Life is never binary. If we put such limits on our decisions, we could be blocking out great talent based on an arbitrary rule we placed on our decision making.
Experience counts for a lot,but only if one has the ability and willingness to learn from exoerience and mistakes along the way.
Time after time in our health service,we see the mistakes of one managmenet group being repeated,either by that group,or within other groups coming after.
There has to be a willingness to understand that those you work with,or are managing,may actually know more about the business than you do,and to be able to take advice from them,without false pride hampering that.
Experienced CEOs are better because they have been through actual situations and be in a better position to make critical decisions.
CEOs who have been trained but lack actual experience may not be able to apply the knowledge and skills learnt, make wrong decisions and create problems for organizations.
Experienced CEOs usually are better because they can make better deceions based in past decisions.
Trained CEOs make make bad decisions because even with their training, they may make bad decisions. This is due to the fact that decisions are made in a certain context, which comes from experience on the job.
They could be(come), but it takes some time, some funds and some quality training/coaching/mentoring. Until then, you could perhaps rely on trained CEO's only...
Both might be better…. But experienced chief executive are much better since there some of the situation need to rely on past experience so as to make decision or need to use the past experience to forecast for the future.
Training and retraining is part of experience especially in dynamic business environment where technology, innovation and creativity is the vogue in business and customer retention. Retraining and re-engineering will assist experience but not experience on how to use 20 years automobile? New approaches of how to win customers into business are emerging every seconds in business world. Do not sit down.! Be on your toe and run the speed of innovation not just sitting on experience alone. Researchers are exploring more everyday, moon is no longer the longest journey from the earth. Do something to improve yourself in addition to your experience. Do not rely on old adage that "experience is the best teacher" add training in order to be versatile and marketable in your areas of skill, be dynamic and not static.