The CEO is the face of the company, the ultimate responsible for the success of the company. and the one who wears many hats when need be. She gets things done and inspire everyone around the mission.
... radiate energy and confidence to their organization
... are always selling the company, its vision, to everyone around
... radiate confidence and hook people to their vision
... know they are in charge of the culture of the company
... have extremely high agency
... recruit and inspire at a very high bar
... raise the bar in excellence and inspire
... own finance and strategy of the company
... decide fast in uncertain environment, and revert fast if needed
... do not lift the spirit of their teams up
... are low energy in what they communicate and have low salesmanship
... are shy and do not embark top management
... do not care about culture
... blame external factors in failures
... recruit B-players and like to have mediocre people below them
... are OK with mediocrity and slowness
... cannot clearly express finance and strategy
... are slow to decide, and put ego in reverting thus keeping things wrong
Soft skills
Leadership
Management
Convincing
Organization
Empathy
Hard skills
Sales (advanced)
Strategy (advanced)
Organization design (advanced)
Problem solving (advanced)
Project management (advanced)
Product management (basics)
financial modeling / business (basics)
Activities
Team organization
Coaching / Training
Client presentations
User research
Product managementas
Operations deployment
Governance/board mgt