Great CEOs are counter-intuitive. They don’t subscribe to herd mentality, rather they use their contrarian instincts to exploit opportunities, to create advantage, to build strong leadership teams, to expand market share, and to increase brand equity.
A global recession is nothing more than an excuse for poor leaders to assign blame for weak performance elsewhere.
The counter-intuitive CEO (Great CEOs) sees an economic downturn as an opportunity to strengthen their organizations and to grow the enterprise. As the month draws to a close I want you to invest the next 10 minutes refining your purpose and impact, as it provides strong validation for what I’ve been espousing to you for quite some time in posts like: “Young CEOs.”
It’s a challenging time for all of us and I wish you great success this year.
Mike Myatt
Mike Myatt is a leadership advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs and their Boards of Directors. Widely regarded as America’s Top CEO Coach, he is recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on leadership. He is the bestselling author of Hacking Leadership (Wiley) and Leadership Matters… (OP), a Forbes leadership columnist, and is the Founder at N2Growth.
