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Upcoming CEO Forum on Successful Exits
CEO Forum: Building, Growth and Exits I'll be leading the Austin Technology Council's first CEO Forum of 2013 this Tuesday, January 15th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Driskill Hotel. The discussion...
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Chief Executive Inauguration: Handling the First 100 Days
The Presidential Inauguration takes place every four years but at any given time, 14 to 15 percent of CEOs are in their first year of office, according to global management consulting firm Boston...
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The No Asshole Policy and Company Culture
What do you do if one of your star performers is a colossal jerk? You know the type: He or she treats people poorly, doesn’t think the rules apply, behaves arrogantly, etc. I recently published a post...
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Various roads to the CEO chair
People take various paths to get to the CEO chair, resulting from a mix of education, experience, and other factors. CEO.com recently published the following infographic - The Long Road to Becoming CEO...
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CEO Fail: The Master Strategist
Last week I introduced you to another CEO failure mode: the Total Control CEO, who is so afraid of making a mistake that he or she tries to control every decision, no matter how big or small. While no...
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CEO Failure Modes: Balancing Total Responsibility with Limited Control
People react in different ways to the burden of responsibility the CEO role entails. In my last two CEO failure mode posts, I painted two extremes between the Total Control CEO who tries to control...
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Judging talent: Motivation and value
Besides creative initiative and exceptionalism, which I’ve written about recently, there are two more traits I look for in every job candidate: motivation and value. Here’s what I mean by each....
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Why the CEO-chair split DOESN’T matter
A CNNMoney/Fortune article today titled “Why the CEO-chair split matters” reports on how a group of union retirement funds believes that CEOs should not also serve as chairman of the board at their...
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When do you hire for job experience vs. raw talent?
I’ve been discussing the top traits I look for in job candidates – creative initiative, exceptionalism, motivation and value – but a vital and vexing question for most hiring managers is whether to...
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Three heads aren’t better than one in CEO land
Does Samsung really need three CEOs? Boy this is a strange one: Samsung recently announced that two of its presidents will assume co-CEO roles with current CEO Kwon Oh-hyun. Three CEOs. Since CEO...
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Six Hats of the CEO: Player
In my search for experienced CEOs to learn from I joined a CEO peer group called the Inc. CEO Project. This group led by Jim Schleckser was particularly valuable in my thinking about how CEOs should...
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CEOs: Employee engagement matters
This infographic from CEO.com is a good depiction of why employee engagement matters. It is essential in driving a high-performance culture. In doing research for my book, I too have found that the...
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Six Hats of the CEO: Coach
Readers of this blog know how important I believe the CEO’s role is in finding and recruiting talent. This is what the coach hat is all about, which is the second one in my series on the six hats or...
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How executives hire: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on finding motivated employees
We want people to join Starbucks who have like-minded values. We need happy people—we’re a people company that serves coffee, not the other way around…If you don’t believe we can do this, or you don’t...
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Six Hats of the CEO: Architect
The architect is the third hat in my series on the six roles of the CEO. Jim Schleckser, CEO and managing partner of the Inc. CEO Project, created the five hats of CEOs (stay tuned for my own...
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CEOs need deliberate practice too
I often use sports analogies in my writing and teaching, and an article by Tony Schwartz of The Energy Project – fittingly titled The 6 Keys To Being Awesome At Everything – caught my eye as both a...
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Is this CA’s turnaround CEO?
A recent headline in Bloomberg declared CA’s New CEO Jolting Old Guard With Silicon Valley Moxie. As someone who founded a company acquired by CA Technologies, I am very interested to see what changes...
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Six hats of the CEO: Engineer
The engineer hat – the fourth in my series about the six roles of the CEO - is about “the methodology you use to deliver value to clients.” This is according to Jim Schleckser, CEO and managing partner...
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Six Hats of the CEO: Priest
The sixth and final hat in this series is one I am adding to Jim Schleckser’s work on The High Leverage Roles of a CEO: the Priest hat. I was reared Catholic so I use the term priest, but feel free to...
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CEO Fail: The Budget Blower CEO
My previous article for the CEO failure modes series was about the Roman Emperor CEO, who uses company coffers to fund lavish personal expenditures. The Budget Blower CEO also spends a lot of company...
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