Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.
Visionary CEOs are product- and business-model-centric and extremely customer focused.
CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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