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Disagree about lazy CEO. I worked in a startup with lazy CEO, and it was a disaster. I also worked in a startup with hard-working CEO, who knew every single kno
by deepsun 9y ago
Disagree about lazy CEO. I worked in a startup with lazy CEO, and it was a disaster. I also worked in a startup with hard-working CEO, who knew every single knob of our product, and it was much better.
> Because they will delegate their vision to other people.
Other people means you, even if it's totally outside your area of competence, but rather CEO's.
- tlogan 9y agoWith "lazy CEO" I'm referring to other myth which is talking how successful CEOs are waking up at 4:30am, then they go run, mediate for 90 minutes, don't drink coffee, don't eat meat, and then work will 10:30pm. Every day.
- sjg007 9y agoYeah this is not sustainable or real. It's a myth.
- bisRepetita 9y agoCounter example. I worked in a company with a lazy CEO, present 3 hours a week. But a great team, paid well. We were happy and accomplished some very good work. Not saying this is the way to go. But to this day, I am surprised it worked out.
- unclebucknasty 9y agoI think you guys are falling victim to the same oversimplification implied by the article. That is, that you can boil the CEO's success-potential down to a handful of traits. The article is interesting, and there probably is generally value in the traits outlined but, no discrete set of characteristics is deterministic. Not only are other personality factors involved, but it also depends on the product, team, etc. The lazy CEO might be perfect when paired with the workaholic CTO. Or, as others have put it, it's complicated.