Here is the deal, you are an investor, you have a good idea for bussiness and want to put it in action, you also have a draft of a bussiness plan, you start a company.
After short time you realize you need to hire an experimented C.E.O. (hey, you are an investor and your motivation is to invest in more than one bussiness, you have great eye for bussinesses, right?).
Now, what is the minimum set of skills (setpoint [0]) for the C.E.O. you want to hire?; In no particular order here is mine:
- Strong sense of determination,
- Strong sense of urgency,
- Strong capacity of communication,
- Ability to work under stress and/or ability of finding solutions while in any chaos situation,
- Our C.E.O. must be a goal oriented person,
- Our C.E.O. must wear exactly what’s necesary in any situation and must impress people at first look,
- Our C.E.O. must be someone people wants to work with,
- Our C.E.O. must speak and write correctly, no ordinary vocabulary nor lack of a good vocabulary must be shown, ever,
- Our C.E.O. must have “good eye” for people,
- Our C.E.O. must rapidly adapt to any situation and win,
- Our C.E.O. must have a passion (or more than one) non work related (must be a “happy” person),
- Our C.E.O. must love his/hers job/task/mission/goals,
- Our C.E.O. always have to look into peoples eyes while talking,
- Our C.E.O. must wear a fine wrist watch,
- Our C.E.O. doesn’t need to be too friendly, he/she must transmit as well certain feeling of unreachability,
- Our C.E.O. must be well paid,
- Our C.E.O. preferably must have a fine car/truck for daily use,
- Our C.E.O. must demonstrate he/she can spend money at will,
- Our C.E.O. must want to have family (if not already),
- Our C.E.O. must know/like arts,
At this time I don’t think of anything else, maybe this list will be update sometime soon… So, what are the skills you look for in your future C.E.O.?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setpoint_(control_system)
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March 25th, 2009 at 15:38
I am getting some ideas from experience:
He / she must be aware of world (the real one).
He / she must be in shape (or at least exercise often)
But what I do consider most important is:
He / she must be able to accept his / her mistakes.
March 26th, 2009 at 08:50
- Being aware of the world is equivalente to “must have a healthy dose of paranoid”, which in fact is very good.
- Must be in shape is not necesary at all, great world class C.E.O. are fatties :D
- Being able to accept their mistakes is a quality every human being must have.
Thanks for commenting