What qualities does CEO need to be a good leader?
A passion for what they are doing. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, from my perspective, then I don’t understand how you can do a job in today’s environment, where it is so competitive. If you don’t have a passion for what you are doing, I don’t know how, day-to-day, you can come in and give a 110 percent. You need to do that to succeed in today’s environment. Second, the ability to listen and draw their conclusions from the people they surrounded themselves with. When you have somebody doing a function for two or three years, you sort of get blinders on when you are looking at something year after year, quarter after quarter, and you don’t see the forest for the trees. Ultimately, when you get individuals that have been in a position long enough, coming in without any preconceived notions and looking at the function they have to do, they ultimately see the trees in the forest. If you are willing listen to that, not always are their ideas perfect or right, but they oftentimes giv
