Why Should You Listen?

I have worked closely with twenty CEOs in the High Tech Sector and have interviewed an additional dozen to identify those attributes that separate the winners from those who merely get by. These CEOs run the gamut from individuals who created multi-billion dollar companies in less than a decade to first-time CEOs trying to get the latest innovation into the marketplace.
There are over 20,000 books commercially available today that detail what it takes to be a great CEO and a great leader. They all focus on some fundamental factors:
1. An intense--even overwhelming--desire to create your vision of success for the firm and yourself, and your investors.
2. The skill in every moment and in every breath to balance the elements of simplicity, creativity and harmony within the organization, while moving unwaveringly to fulfill the vision.
3. the constant elementary understanding that the primary purpose of your business is to provide the acknowledged market with Products/Services that meets the needs of that market.
The ability to maintain equilibrium between these fundamental factors is based on your underlying value system which constitutes the essential attributes that will drive your decision making.
In this and upcoming blogs I will examine common occurrences that cause a CEO to lose either focus or balance and, as a result, for the company to lose momentum, personnel, customers, market share and capital.