What Sets Successful CEOs Apart
Um... Don't they need a control group of randomly selected persons?<p>'Decisive' Ok, but are they more decisive than a baseball coach?<p>'Engaging for Impact' More or less than a car salesperson?<p>'Adapting Proactively' Homeless persons adapt, and can be surprisingly resourceful, too.<p>'Delivering Reliably' Most manufacturing managers have this trait, too. If they don't, they aren't manufacturing managers for long.<p>From the results of the study, one would infer that if they adopt these 4 traits, they will become CEOs. But that's laughable. These 4 traits are supplemental and supportive to getting there, but not causal. In my opinion, a CEO needs to be driven. They need to be going somewhere that they can convince a lot of other different types of people to follow them to. They have to have a sense of agency that leads them to want to be in charge. Only then do those 4 behaviors make a difference.<p>This article is like taking a bunch of measurements from professional athletes to determine what made them athletes, ignoring that all the physical abilities and training could not get them there without the drive to achieve. That has to come first.