The Chief Executive Officer is the most prestigiuous and least understood job in an organisation.
Everyone believes that CEO’s are all powerful, are magically competent and can do what they want, but nothing could be further from the truth.
The job description of a CEO means meeting the needs of employees, customers, investors, communities, and the law. And in contrast – they need to understand and predict their competitors’ behaviour.
Some of a CEO’s duties and responsibilities can be delegated. But several elements of the job description must be done by the person holding the title, the CEO, as no CEO have a traditional job description.
A CEO’s job description is merely an examination of the actual roles that a CEO plays within that company. The principle components of a CEO’s job description includes the following areas and is not duties that could be delegated:
Formulating and setting a clear, meaningful and achievable growth strategy and direction for the organisation;
Modeling and setting the organisations culture, governance, values, and behavior;
Creating, building, managing and leading the top executive team;
Management of the effective capital allocation which is the heart of value creation.
While a CEO may get input and advice on some of these duties, it is the CEO’s responsibility to perform them well. Being the CEO you can spend your time doing whatever, but ultimately, everything else about a CEO’s job is optional.
Success as a CEO requires more than just knowing the CEO’s job description.
A CEO needs to know how to measure their success, avoid the pitfalls that are unique to the CEO’s job, and conduct themselves to stay sane and skillful over time.
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