When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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When you're the CEO, you take responsibility.
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.
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.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
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.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
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