Calling Yourself A CEO Doesn’t Make You One

Are you a pretend CEO? If so, listen up: Just because you call yourself a CEO doesn’t make you one. For one thing, if a board of directors doesn’t name you chief executive officer of a real corporation, you’re sort of like a silly little kid playing grownup. More importantly, you’re probably misrepresenting your abilities,…

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Smart CEOs Use Social for Listening

Thump a turtle and watch the turtle’s head jerk back into its shell. That’s the reaction you get when you mention “social media” to some CEOs. When I encounter CEOs with heads buried deep, I don’t let the term “social media” trigger a dead-end debate. I try to move past semantics fast: People have always been…

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