Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified.
Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
Most CEOs are CEOs because they started the businesses they run - not because they are abnormally smart or qualified. Often they’re the least qualified people in the company, since they’re the only ones who didn’t go through an interview process.
executives, are unique. The value of a CEO lies in the person's experience, judgment, vision and instinct to guide the countless decisions that a company must make every day. Spending hours thinking deeply about a single problem is a waste of that value. It would be better to hire smart people to think deeply about the problem and present possible
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Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Therefore, a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed and quality of those decisions. Great decisions come from CEOs who display …
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
You do not have to be a CEO to be an effective founder
Naval Ravikant • Naval Ravikant explains why you don't need to be CEO
sari and added
1. Most founders are bad at growth, so if you're amazing at it, the advantage is significant.
Consider: Most startups die not because founders are bad or products suck, but because they couldn't figure out how to get anyone to try them.
CEOs don’t hire People to fill jobs. CEOs recruit talent to grow the company. They understand that there is an inverse relationship between the control exerted by an executive and the proper functioning of a team. Control stifles creativity; creativity leads to growth and performance.
Trey Taylor • A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite
There is a large random factor in the success of any company. So the guys you end up reading about in the papers are the ones who are very smart, totally dedicated, and win the lottery.
Paul Graham • How to Make Wealth
Matthew Giampetroni added
The first problem is that everybody learns to be a CEO by being a CEO. No training as a manager, general manager, or in any other job actually prepares you to run a company. The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company. This means that you will face a broad set of things that you don’t know how to do that require skills yo
... See moreBen Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to get that training, especially if the company is succeeding.