Being a successful CEO goes beyond just having strong leadership and interpersonal skills. Knowing how to execute and strategically position your company to grow in highly competitive industries is key. When business consultants and CEO peer development coaches studied the things that all successful CEOs did, an interesting trend emerged. Here are the top four behaviors the world’s most profitable CEOs do to ensure that their companies are on a trajectory for growth.
- Stay committed to making fast and accurate decisions. High-performing CEOs are known for being extremely …
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The role of the CEO was once thought of as a type of dictatorship, where the CEO made the strategic decisions and they were then executed by the employees. However, with the fast-changing nature of business today, CEOs must take on a much more collaborative approach. To succeed in this new capacity, as the servant leader, CEOs must invest in developing key interpersonal skills. It is these “soft skills” that can enable CEOs to effectively lead their organizations and motivate their employees to want to fulfill the …
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As the CEO of your organization, having to manage your time to get everything done is a much-needed skill. So much so that when researchers examined what the world’s most successful CEOs do and how they structure their workdays, an interesting trend emerged. Research suggests that by leveraging these proven productivity habits could be the secret that leading CEOs of Fortune 100 companies use to maximize their efficiency and skyrocket their productivity.
Habit #1: Make face-to-face interactions a priority. Sending emails is great to document your requests or to get a quick note …
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Even at the CEO level, respect is earned from every interaction you have with key stakeholders both inside and outside of your organization. Losing sight of this could set you on a course to have the authority to run your company but without the esteem of the very people you need to make things happen. According to leading CEO development consultants, here are the respect-earning things you should be doing everyday.
1. Make promises that you can keep.
In fact, you want to always aim to underpromise and overdeliver. Not only does this help …
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