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Leadership: Makes a Top Executive Different?
Do you want to get to the top of your company? McGraw-Hill questioned
some 4,000 managers at all levels, including CEOs, asking them to rank
the differences they considered most valuable to meeting that goal. The
results showed that senior managers outranked their subordinates in five
areas:
- Responsibility: Executives tend to take on added responsibility
and greater workloads through their careers.
- Creativity: Senior executives seem more apt and able to come up
with ideas and solutions to challenges confronted in the
workplace.
- Stress Tolerance: The study showed that executives outperform
managers under stress. Executives also view difficult situations
as challenges to rise to, rather than obstacles to be overwhelmed
by.
- Personal Insights: Executives are more exact and honest in
their assessments of their own strengths and weaknesses. As a
result, they are able to improve upon their identified
deficiencies.
- Communication: Good verbal and written skills are the hallmark
of effective senior executives. They have good ideas and they
communicate them effectively; they possess strong vocabularies;
and they know how to market themselves.
And Then There’s the Alternative View:
Quoted in "Outlook," Asian Business, the president
of Japan operations for Boyden International, one of the world’s
largest executive search firms: "I don’t look for nice guys -
they tend to be weak managers. Also, great men have great appetites. I’m
not so keen to place goody-goodies who don’t smoke or drink and never
play around." Hmmmm…
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