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The article never really explains why you'd want to be a CEO. Are most CEOs satisfied with their job?
by panic 9y ago
The article never really explains why you'd want to be a CEO. Are most CEOs satisfied with their job?
- jpatokal 9y agoMoney, power and prestige is a pretty attractive triumvirate of reasons to be a CEO.
- mhotchen 9y agoI think 'power' here sounds negative (probably not intentionally), but remember with power comes the ability to make meaningful change and have a real impact.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoYet yearning for that might not make you best placed for the role.
- Amygaz 9y agoProbably why there are so few good CEO
- jorangreef 9y ago"To serve people" - is a far more attractive reason to be a CEO and a far more likely reason to succeed massively as a CEO. Most business books focus on the "how", but the "why" is critical for a CEO. Money, power and prestige are byproducts and make very poor motivators in themselves. A CEO motivated by money, power and prestige (even those who naively pretend second order effects) will likely make suboptimal decisions. "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."