Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.
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I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
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.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.
I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
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