http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/getting-your-ceos-attention-156 Exploring business and its impact on life with Stever Robbins Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/getting-your-ceos-attention-156#comment-1096 Stever Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:42:35 +0000 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/getting-your-ceos-attention-156#comment-1096 I fear you're right, Stu. Many people shoot for the CEO job for reasons that have less to do with the business and more to do with their own egos. That doesn't necessarily make for a great boss. I tried to allude to that in the original Get-it-Done Guy episode by mentioning that if you have a bad boss, all bets are off. What I didn't say is that so very many bosses are bad bosses... I fear you’re right, Stu. Many people shoot for the CEO job for reasons that have less to do with the business and more to do with their own egos. That doesn’t necessarily make for a great boss. I tried to allude to that in the original Get-it-Done Guy episode by mentioning that if you have a bad boss, all bets are off. What I didn’t say is that so very many bosses are bad bosses…

]]> http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/getting-your-ceos-attention-156#comment-1093 Stu Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:51:16 +0000 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/getting-your-ceos-attention-156#comment-1093 Would that CEO's were as thinking and rational as your invterviewer seemed. The biggest mistake I've made in my career has been to believe that top management is rational and driven by your speakers motives. They aren't. In fact most of them aren't even smart. So the quicker you lower your expectations of them the easier life beomes. In practise they have a multitude of motives, and you have to go in 'under the radar' of thier concious motives, uisng 'manipulative' nlp techniques.... sad but true. Would that CEO’s were as thinking and rational as your invterviewer seemed. The biggest mistake I’ve made in my career has been to believe that top management is rational and driven by your speakers motives. They aren’t. In fact most of them aren’t even smart. So the quicker you lower your expectations of them the easier life beomes.
In practise they have a multitude of motives, and you have to go in ‘under the radar’ of thier concious motives, uisng ‘manipulative’ nlp techniques…. sad but true.

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