Some guy pointed me to this Forbes article:

At lower levels, a lack of experience is often damning. No one would hire an engineer to build an airplane because he once constructed a highway. No one hires a basketball coach because he coached a successful football team. But at the very highest levels of American business, being a good guy all around is considered what it takes. GAP, for instance, recently hired Paul Pressler as its CEO, though the former Walt Disney Co. executive had never worked for the company, or as a retail executive, or in the garment business.