How to become CEO

I had a conversation with a friend today about career paths and it's really interesting to thinka bout all the possible ways of becoming successful at a company. I graduated with a computer science degree, so there was really no variety in my job choices when it was time to look for a job. I could either be a web developer, software developer, applications developer, network developer, QA developer, or some other kind of developer.

But what about those people that graduated as political science majors, philosophy or library sciences? Let's play this out a bit. Let's say the goal is to become the CEO of a company. What skills would a library sciences major bring to the table?

I don't know the answer to that, I'm sure there's some Google app--in beta--that makes that organizational whiz irrelevant.

Could anyone, though, start from the bottom of the corporate food chain and eventually reach success? Or are there some paths that are just destined for failure?

Have I really said anything relevant in this blog post?