Best of IdeaCast: Behaviors of Successful CEOs

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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For the qualities that top-performing CEOs have in common, research shows some surprising results. It turns out that charisma, confidence, and pedigree all have little bearing on CEO success. Elena Botelho, partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART and coleader of its CEO Genome Project, studied high performers in the corner office. The analysis found that they demonstrated four business behaviors: quick decision making, engaging for impact, adapting proactively, and delivering reliably. Botelho cowrote the HBR article “What Sets Successful CEOs Apart.”

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's Kurt we need your help with our annual survey this is your last chance to help us get to know you so we can make idea cast even better for you
0:09.8	It's easy just go to HBR.org
0:12.7	slash podcast survey.
0:15.0	Again, that's HBR.org slash podcast survey.
0:19.5	And thanks for listening. Welcome to the HBO Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. Kurt Nickish.
0:43.0	A lot has changed in the business world in the last few years,
0:52.0	but there are some fundamentals that still
0:54.9	ring true, and it's good to be reminded of them, like the ingredients that make a good leader.
1:01.9	As we end one year and begin a new one, we wanted to re-share this episode that looks at the
1:07.5	characteristics of the most effective CEOs out there.
1:11.7	Whether you already are a chief executive or aspire to run an
1:15.8	organization one day, the good news is these behaviors can be learned. In fact, the
1:22.4	stereotype we might have of a leader or CEO might be all wrong.
1:27.7	That's according to a research analysis from the consulting firm G.H. Smart,
1:32.1	where Elena Botello co-leaders the CEO Genome Project.
1:36.8	She's also a co-author of the HBR article, What Set Successful CEOs Apart? Back in 2017, she told set successful CEOs apart.
1:43.0	Back in 2017, she told IdeaCast host Sarah Green Carmichael
1:47.6	about the four behaviors that really make CEOs successful.
1:52.4	Here's their conversation with the takeaways that introverts are slightly more likely to be the most
2:15.0	effective CEOs than extroverts. Why is that? What's that finding?
2:20.0	When we did our analysis we basically bucketed CEOs in three buckets.
2:24.0	Did they meet expectations?
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