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Do you think you have what it takes to be BPOC (big person on campus) in your company or another one?
Do you have the required characteristics to be the person in the corner office, in other words the CEO?
Most of the clients I work with aspire to achieve such lofty goals, but many of them don’t really know what it takes to get that job and succeed at it. Here are five traits you must-have to be a successful CEO:
“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
Variations of this quote have been attributed to numerous individuals throughout history, among them Winston Churchill who used it during WWII, Alan Lakein, a time management expert, and Benjamin Franklin, an American patriot and renaissance man.
The fact that this quote is attributed to so many and used so frequently gives credence to its message. And it also happens to be one of my favorite quotes because I believe it. No matter what you do for a living or where you live, planning holds the key to success and the same holds true for personal career growth.
Senior business leaders understand the importance of planning to further business growth, and setting goals and objectives is at the core of any successful corporate strategy. If you don’t know where you want to be X days, weeks or months from now, how can you know how to begin? Why should career planning be any different?
Professionals that hope one day to have a corner office cannot just expect to end up there magically. They must invest time and effort developing a career roadmap in order to reach their full career potential. Here are a few practical action items for career planning that will put you on top:
There seems to be a lot of changes in the top spot at major corporations lately. In fact, the Business Journals reported 95 CEOs stepped down or retired in August alone. And today two more announced their departures: Jeff Zucker of NBC Universal and Michael Geoghegan of HSBC Holdings, both amidst other changes within their respective organizations.
The Glassdoor quarterly report* on CEO performance is out, and it seems the down economy and internal actions may have impacted the popularity of CEOs across the board. More than 60% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists — ranking 25 CEOs each — recorded a decline in overall approval ratings since the beginning of July while less than 25% moved up. New analysis this quarter reveals that, at many companies, opinions of the CEOs vary widely depending on whether an employee works close to the power center in the corporate headquarters or further removed from the CEO in a satellite office.
In fact, 68% of CEOs on both the highest and lowest rated lists have higher approval ratings from employees in headquarters than employees working in non-HQ offices. A perfect example of this phenomenon is Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, who happens to be one of the highest rated CEOs on Glassdoor. While his score has slid from 91% approval in Q2 to 76% in Q3, most of the decrease has to do with an influx of negative reviews from Netflix operations in Oregon – as of early October, Hastings had a 92% approval rating among headquarter ...
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