CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
"There's no CEO for the government. " But if you were CEO for a day at the government, would you have tools and reports and wherewithal to look at government the way a business would look at its lines of business, its spending, its revenue? I've actually been working, first by myself and then with a group of people, on then on and off, and now much more on, almost since the I time left Microsoft.
If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.
Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?
What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!
The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!
If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one. "
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.
In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.
Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead
Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.