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Apr 2023
31m 24s

What Top Performing CEOs Really Do

Harvard Business Review
About this episode

Popular stereotypes of successful CEOs as charismatic white men with Ivy League degrees who never falter under pressure are often misleading.


“[T]he CEOs I get to know up close and personal really look nothing like this image of perfection. And so we decided to dig into this with the data,” says Elena Botelho, who co-leads the CEO Genome Project and advises top leaders.


Botelho tells IdeaCast host Sarah Green Carmichael that actual success in the C-suite has more to do with being decisive, staying adaptable, and delivering reliable results.


Key topics include: leadership development, leadership transitions, decisiveness, adaptability, and results.


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Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode: 4 Behaviors of Top-Performing CEOs (May 2017)


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