Robert Hunt identifies five traits that separate effective CEOs: decisive action, relentless learning, ownership and accountability, talent development, and results orientation. Great CEOs shift from doing the work themselves to coaching others and scaling performance.
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What are the top 5 traits of a great CEO?
Yeah, I've watched this consistently with the leaders that are in our groups that we run. And the, the 5 things are that the number 1 thing is they make decisions. In order to do that well, they're constantly learning. They never stop learning. The world's constantly changing. If you're not learning, you're falling behind. And when you do make a decision, the 3rd thing is they own it. They create a world of accountability by their own behavior. And so making a decision and then not owning it is irresponsible. As a leader. So you have to be able to learn enough to know what you want to do, make the decision, and then own that decision. The fourth thing is that they're always pouring into others. They're always making time to create leaders. Some of the things that we have to do if we're going to scale our business is to get out of the job of doing all the work and move to a place of coaching and guiding. And if you're pouring into leaders, you're creating more leaders. Pour into leaders, and then, oh, they, they drive results. They drive the results. So they don't do the work, but they lead the team to the place of where they want to be.