Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.
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Visionary CEOs are product- and business-model-centric and extremely customer focused.
Visionary CEOs don't need someone else to demo the company's key products for them. They deeply understand products, and they have their own coherent and consistent vision of where the industry/business models and customers are today, and where they need to take the company.
Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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.
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.
No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
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