I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.
If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.