Want To
Be
C.E.O.
Then
Become
It is so easy. Own an enterprise and run it for
your livelihood. You are the CEO. Is it really that easy? Yes, if you have
certain ingredients. Everybody in your small enterprise will look up to you for
guidance for action or restraint, betterment, delivery and disposal, innovation
& creativity, in emergencies or otherwise; you are the boss; even if there
is no other person, you have to guide your own destiny with care and caution so
that it makes a sense and creates a space for you in the society-the urge
inside that would make you successful.
But every person can’t own an enterprise nor
everyone in an enterprise become CEO. There has to be one CEO only may be a
collective one like a Cabinet in a country or a Board of Directors in a company
despite this CEO culminates only into a Prime Minister or a Managing Director.
It is singular, plurals are not known to this terminology.
It is position which carries with it
responsibilities, duties, accountabilities, challenges, odds, known or unknown,
calculated or limitless without excuses and 24x7. Like Corona the unknown and
hidden but man did what he could to save fellow beings. You have to perform
& deliver irrespective of the circumstances and environment, emergencies
and normal, natural and unnatural not only for yourself, for others also that
is the most important part. One has to deal with different types of people and
every time ensure success of the organization.
It requires education, skill, knowledge,
experience, capacity to penetrate and persist, integrity, devotion, shouldering
responsibility, dedication, stick to it attitude and strength of the character.
In addition a CEO has to possess are many other qualities.
I do not think that there is any other quality
so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It
overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
A CEO must have intrinsic faculties of
character- those which are not acquired by education or experience. These are
inbuilt, the gifts from God: good health, high immunity level, courage,
accurate self-analysis of self-assets and liabilities, conviction, morality,
inner peace and happiness, physique -that has its own role to play in
impressing others; although this is God given but it has a role; however world
has seen exceptions where people with deficiencies have enriched the human race
and so on.
A sense to understand what is time- missing in
many of us -not the time management in the modern sense, is another
characteristic of a successful CEO. A clear heart and a rational head is again
a nature’s gift that would help to manage life and livelihood.
“There’s
an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not
the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an
apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out
of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.”
Kevin Plank
It’s not about having a specific set time; both
personal and professional lives are 24/7. It’s simply, more about making the
right allocation to each one and recognizing that it’s going to be different
every single day”
Michael Dell
CEO should be daring and different as the
circumstances demand; no calculation; no botheration about results and
consequences but a determined definite a spontaneous response. Reconnaissance
men tell a Commanding Officer enemy tank regiment about to attack any time, he orders
his tanks to attack right then, battle is won war is over. CO gets a charge
sheet for sending tanks without air cover; inquiry is over, case goes to the competent
authority for quantum of punishment: case received back;
“We were
the winners because CO was daring and different. Issue him letter of
commendation”.
CEO has to be a good listener with eyes wide
open: should listen what is being said & also the corridor gossip about
health of the organization, market stories and then sieve all for appropriate
action. A walk through the corridors must enlighten the head how organization is
moving-fast & steady or slow and depressed.
He has to be smarter than his
people-colleagues, workforce, subordinates, suppliers, vendors and researchers:
smartness should be tempered with positivity for action for his people and the
organization. Smartness with negativity hits hard the initiative and creativity
of the people, and the institution he is leading. It turns the people off - work
force achieves just the targets and is off the extra mile.
Dignity and honour very pious words. A CEO has
to maintain and up hold the dignity of the office he is holding and also take
care of others in this matter and always appreciate the good work done
immediately and in a dignified manner. The veil of dignity can bring out the
most secret information that is adversely affecting the health of any
organization. Junior most must get the most dignified behavior and response.
Seniors in an organization have many things to
advance and benefit; junior have
slightly less but they feel motivated and encouraged to do better if the
seniors have courage to confess ignorance and personal fault when something
goes wrong. As rightly said:
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes,
smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C.
Maxwell
A CEO is always different than the person who
is CEO: that is the only effective way to deal with varied people in a sensible
manner. He should able to avoid personal offence; should know when to offend and
when to persuade. If a person is not able to understand this differentiation;
he has sown the seeds of failure.
A CEO should always use institutional resources
that is way to strengthen the organization and its systems and if you happen to
rely on yourself and your resources those will be available to you alone and
not to the system you are head of.
Every action should be authentic from the core
of one’s heart. Perfunctory, sensational, childish and dramatic action can kill
in five minutes the reputation, goodwill built with sustained efforts over
decades.
Vision statements by the systems; beautify
printed and framed are just the jugglery of words drafted by the professionals
not concerned with the job. Real vision is somewhere else; in the mind of the
CEO that changes with circumstances, technology, competition & competence,
to be miles ahead of others. A CEO has to be doing the most important &
critical jobs which may other are hesitant to undertake; like negotiations, plants
visits at night, surprise inventory checks etc.
"You don’t have to be a genius or a
visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework
and a dream." -
Michael Dell
We are
really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people
perform.
Mark Zuckerberg
Passion is a great asset of achievers, unless
one is passionate. He can’t achieve, so is with nobody-knows qualities-the X -factors-exceptional qualities which
come into play only in times of crisis. If a CEO is a store house of such
qualities, company is a most advantageous.
Without
passion, you don’t have any energy and without energy you simply have nothing.
Donald Trump
CEOs are like Vishnu and his incarnations of
Sanatan Dharma of India, who presents himself the way needed to end a crisis
and always aware of past, present and future. They must have solution for every
crisis. They are like magicians; every time take out a pigeon from an empty satchel.
What’s
the recipe for success? Start with energy, initiative and intelligence, then
add a dash of integrity, a pinch of honesty, two shakes of generosity and a
heavy pour of the willingness to do more than your share.
Warren Buffett
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