article thumbnail

Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

CEO 520
article thumbnail

Are You Managing the Dimensions of Your CEO Influence?

Lead Change Blog

Porter and Nitin Nohira published an article titled “How CEOs Manage Time” It was a fascinating insight into how CEOs do and should spend their time. . I drew one aspect from their thinking for a round of recent CEO coaching sessions, focusing on how CEOs exert influence. . How do you influence? .

Influence 273
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Chief Executive Coaching: Charting a Bold Course in Leadership’s Vast Ocean

CO2

CEO Coaching International shapes this quest, turning introspection into actionable insights​ ​. They don’t just hold the map; they help chart the course to your true north. Vistage reports that their coached CEOs saw an uptick in annual revenue by 4.6% That’s the kind of partnership CEO Coaching International fosters.

article thumbnail

Anant Agarwal Why Massive Open Online Courses Still Matter TedSummaries

Persuasive Powerhouse

Speaker Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. As a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries.

Course 100
article thumbnail

What Matters When Hiring External CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

Hiring a CEO from outside is a common practice, with around a third of new hires coming from outside the hiring firm. Such hires are often made in the hope that the new boss will implement meaningful change and chart a new course for an organization that is seemingly going in the wrong direction. Lonely at the top.

CEO 115
article thumbnail

The Impact of the CEO on Leadership Development

Great Leadership By Dan

That is, of course you can’t develop leaders by doing just one thing, leadership development is a system, involving many interdependent variables. I thought about it for just a few seconds, and then, without thinking of the political consequences, blurted out, “get a new CEO ?” So what's a CEO to do? Very career limiting.

article thumbnail

Coaching for CEOs: Steering Through Leadership’s Choppy Waters

CO2

Why CEOs Need More Than Just a Boardroom – Coaching for CEOs Hello, fellow navigators of the corporate seas! Let’s talk about a journey – not just any journey, but the unique voyage of a CEO. This is why coaching CEOs and increased emotional intelligence is on the rise. Loneliness at the Top?

CEO 60