Four Things That Set Successful CEOs Apart
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Fascinating 10-year study by Harvard Business Review finds that successful CEOs share four common traits:
They are decisive, and make decisions quickly and with conviction
They get buy-in from employees and key stakeholders
They look for early signs of success or failure, and adapt or pivot speedily
They are reliable, and deliver results. That means they are judicious with what they promise, and strive to over-deliver.
The HBR study was based on 17,000 executive assessments by ghSMART, which studies career history, business results, behavioral patterns and emotional intelligence (EQ) in the C-suite of large companies ranging from publicly held Fortune 500s to privately held medium-sized firms and others backed by private equity.
Fun fact: Only 7% of high-performing CEOs graduated from an Ivy League university, and 8% didn't graduate from college at all.
