the ceo magazine, leadership

Airline captains don’t have an “open door policy, and there’s a good reason for that. Aside from the obvious terrorist and crazy passenger threats, airline pilots realize they face another adversary: treacherous interruptions.

In 1974 an Eastern Airlines flight carrying seventy-eight passengers and four crew members crashed in dense fog during an instrument approach into Charlotte, killing seventy-one. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the flight crew’s lack of altitude awareness and poor cockpit discipline caused the crash.

the ceo magazine, leadership
Jim Bathurst, Retired Marine Colonel and Author

Imagine being the executive assistant to the Marketing Division President of a Fortune 500 company, and the CEO periodically comes down from his ivory tower, walks by your desk, and never acknowledges you even exist. That is but one example of the leadership my wife witnessed while working in the corporate world.

I learned much in my 36 years as a Marine, but the ability to influence people in a positive way tops the list—I cannot imagine how some of the leadership examples she shared with me would lead to a strong or successful organization.

Johnny Manziel, the 22nd pick in this year’s draft, went where no college player has gone before. Not in 78 years. The NFL draft started in 1936.  Let’s do the Math. Well, math is not really my thing so let’s do the estimating thing. Roughly 12,000 football players have played in the NFL. And no one went where Johnny Football dared to go. 

the ceo magazine, leadership
Deborrah Himsel

To create a superbly-functioning C-team, CEOs need to keep their eyes on the whole rather than the individual parts.  This is easy to do in theory but a challenge in practice, especially in a fast-moving, rapid-growth market.

Many times, the process of blending individuals into a high-functioning team is thwarted because of position need.  A COO departs suddenly and the company has little bench strength in operations and a frantic search begins for a replacement; or a CFO is fired because the company is struggling financially, and the pressure is intense to find a new CFO who possesses a number of crucial (and sometimes, highly specialized) skills to avert a crisis. 

the ceo magazine, leadership

There are so many books and speeches/seminars on leadership, yet there are so few leaders. The demand for great leadership has never been higher. Today, the pace of change in business is dramatically faster than in earlier times. Top executives in firms today report fiercer competitive business environments and more globalized patterns of operations than ever. Technological advances continue to significantly impact both communication infrastructures and the strategic business decisions that executives make in terms of trade, resources, and competition.

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