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.
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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.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
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.
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
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.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.