It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.
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.
When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'
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.
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.