I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.
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.
To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
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.
In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
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.