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Adam Bryant interviewed over 1,000 CEOs. These are the 3 critical skills to running a company.
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Adam Bryant was a journalist at the New York Times for nearly 18 years. In that time, he interviewed over 1,000 CEOs and found that each one had three key skills that keep their companies, their employees, and themselves, afloat.
According to Bryant, being a CEO isn’t all private jets and big checks. Since the pandemic, leadership has become even more challenging, as society has turned to companies for direction, support, and even solutions to global issues. Still, founders have found a way to thrive, thanks to these common characteristics.
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About Adam Bryant:
Adam Bryant joined The ExCo Group, a senior leadership development and executive mentoring firm, as managing director in 2017 after a 30-year career in journalism, including 18 years at The New York Times. In addition to his many roles there as a reporter and editor, he created the weekly "Corner Office" column, and interviewed 525 CEOs and other leaders over a decade. He has written four books based on the themes that emerged from Corner Office and from his four current interview series on LinkedIn with board directors, CEOs, CHROs and prominent Black leaders. His latest book, "The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership,” was published in July 2023 by Harvard Business Review Press. Adam is the senior adviser to the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia University.

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@bilalfnous
@bilalfnous 3 месяца назад
03:30 1. Simplifying complexity 2. Being fully accountable 3. Listen to stakeholders
@RicasHomeySpace
@RicasHomeySpace 3 месяца назад
Most of these comments are focusing on CEOs of established corporations. Just a reminder that there are varying types of CEO.... 1. Founder CEOs who have built things from scratch spending 60-100 hours a week of work. 2. Interim CEOs - those that are shoved to the roles because of internal corporate situations 3. Professional CEO - these are hired CEOs with track records to scale current businesses These types all deserve what they are paid for on the varying levels of their responsibilities. So rather than criticize the titles, look behind its job role so you can truly understand what it takes to be one.
@maduk22
@maduk22 10 дней назад
60 hours? I spend minimum 90 and maximum 120
@zhanzo
@zhanzo 3 месяца назад
"complain when things are going great, boast when not" looking at this video, i have the impression that being the CEO of an established company is the best job ever.
@alexeykulikov2739
@alexeykulikov2739 3 месяца назад
Ability to embrace complexity in oneself, others and life in general is a top hardest and rarest trait do have. Great vid, big think.
@Reallyexcel
@Reallyexcel 2 месяца назад
The ability to embrace complexity in oneself, in others, and in life in general is not only one of the most difficult and rare qualities, but the answer to the question raised by yesterday's experience. All are daily practices, and only time brings that to man.
@spencer6683
@spencer6683 3 месяца назад
*My Key Take-aways:* 1. See the paradox as a balancing act 2. People want to be heard, listen as an act of openness, kindness and respect. 3. Be driven by a purpose that rings true to you (usually for the greater good of people). I wish you all the best in your individual journeys, take good care and enjoy!
@invox9490
@invox9490 3 месяца назад
The best CEO's are the ones you don't even know off. They let their companies/business speak for them.
@logghhhhh
@logghhhhh 3 месяца назад
Doesn't make sense
@robertd9850
@robertd9850 3 месяца назад
The more you have to manage people the worse job you are doing. If you hire the right people and ensure they have the right training, they won't need much managing.
@bigmitchtv3922
@bigmitchtv3922 2 месяца назад
Like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma ? Sure they are absolute shite
@PhantomRaspberryBlower
@PhantomRaspberryBlower 3 месяца назад
It just brings into question is this even remotely the right way to organise large companies. If you have 1000 employees can you really understand the complexity, know what goes on and be accountable for everything? How can you possibly listen to 1000 people every day? So the central paradox of being a good CEO is we shouldnt depend on a CEO being good
@Dante150_
@Dante150_ 2 месяца назад
Boom.
@Cyno7
@Cyno7 3 месяца назад
This channel has re-strategised itself well. Great interviews at the start, went through a lull period and now providing interesting interviews again.
@chiquita683
@chiquita683 3 месяца назад
Give it a month, its an election year so they'll be back out with the talking points soon just like the pandemic
@AutoDisheep
@AutoDisheep 3 месяца назад
Nah fuck ceos
@chh8860
@chh8860 3 дня назад
Adam Bryant's column, "The Corner Office', in the NYT's was a must read for me every Sunday morning. His questions were excellent and It always contained an interesting response and/or insight by the guest. Unfortunately, the column was not the same after his departure ... not even close. This video, which I accidently stumbled upon, has reminded me how much I enjoyed his work. I need to find more.
@Showmetheevidence-
@Showmetheevidence- 26 дней назад
Lots of what he said is spot on. Being a CEO is really difficult!
@funguy2627
@funguy2627 3 месяца назад
"you gotta be human" yessh
@jbanders2358
@jbanders2358 3 месяца назад
Because he knows they have zero humanity and will do anything for more profit.
@charlessmyth
@charlessmyth 3 месяца назад
I cried when Dick Fuld got to walk away with only $400-million from Lehman Brothers . . . :-)
@quintessenceSL
@quintessenceSL 3 месяца назад
Blather about "leadership" (is synergy out of fashion now) in the face of quiet quitting and the great resignation. Sure sounds like leadership to me.
@EvoraGT430
@EvoraGT430 3 месяца назад
Most CEOs have no clue about leadership. They just look after Number 1 and screw anyone who gets in their way.
@ibrahimswiss8714
@ibrahimswiss8714 3 месяца назад
Respect to all good CEO's, they keep our jobs with their management decisions. It must be hard, they deserve the bonus and more. Thank you to all the good CEO's.
@israelquito3072
@israelquito3072 3 месяца назад
THANK YOU!!👍👍👍👍
@mansoob
@mansoob 3 месяца назад
A very good insight.
@MyLifeOfficial
@MyLifeOfficial 3 месяца назад
The CEO job is exactly the kind of job that I would love! It depends on your personality type/character, and what kind of things you enjoy thinking about, and using your brainpower on. But I'm sure it can totally be a pain in the backside, maybe even most of the time, esp when you're the founder.
@belleweather
@belleweather 3 месяца назад
Companies should solve issue for the country. Companies are our leverage point since the US Sup. Court decided companies are people. They control politician and so consumers must turn to, ask and even boycott companies who are willing to act in the best interest of the country.
@sethflix
@sethflix 3 месяца назад
It takes a psychopath
@rickhaydan3433
@rickhaydan3433 3 месяца назад
All CEOs care about are their companies' stock prices, profits, and their bonuses for boosting profits and stock prices. To that end, their playbook seems to only include laying off workers, buying companies so they cab sell off pieces of those companies and layoff workers, merge with other companies so they can sell off pieces of both companies and layoff workers, engineer stock buybacks. Most of them seem to have no idea how to actually compete in a capitalist system.
@pranavmanie1479
@pranavmanie1479 24 дня назад
while CEO jobs are important and tension-filled (the right CEO can certainly add lots of value to a company), I think the most notable problem with them is how their pay has become increasingly delinked with actual company performance. and with the advent of maximizing shareholder value at any cost, ofc CEOs became subservient to just that interest. we now know that that is not only a moral issue, it's very much bad business strategy and doesn't work in the long run. the responsibility of a CEO needs a desperate rethink.
@ChandrasegaranNarasimhan
@ChandrasegaranNarasimhan 2 месяца назад
I am not a CEO, but I agree with what the person is saying. It is a multi dimensional balancing act.
@naphtalieh.gbolahan2568
@naphtalieh.gbolahan2568 3 месяца назад
Thanks!
@RAPeters239
@RAPeters239 24 дня назад
This video just further confirmed me wanting to be a CEO. Call me crazy, but I'd love to feel that type of pressure. I want to lead through uncertain times. I know I can.
@aknetworkedit
@aknetworkedit 3 месяца назад
When you see stock footage taken in your old University. Weird.
@souravrudra3222
@souravrudra3222 3 месяца назад
What is the background music used in the first part? @bigthink
@randomize3423
@randomize3423 2 дня назад
"Winter" by Antonio Vivaldi... Thank me later...😇
@Filaf
@Filaf 3 месяца назад
Interview 1000 low income ppl and you’ll see real challenging jobs/life.
@findandobserve
@findandobserve 3 месяца назад
It better be incredibly difficult for that amount of money and power
@princeamu
@princeamu 3 месяца назад
Heavy is the head that’s a ceo
@CodingAqyanoos
@CodingAqyanoos 3 месяца назад
CEO job is like the actual brain. It is a fatty meat but it does things that non parts of the body does.
@regafelix655
@regafelix655 3 месяца назад
Most of paradox is in political leader, they can make particular things as a whole things
@daniel.valdivia
@daniel.valdivia 3 месяца назад
I feel like he only beat around the bush and said nothing of substance in the end
@MrMehGusta
@MrMehGusta Месяц назад
I wonder if the full length interview feels any clearer?
@Showmetheevidence-
@Showmetheevidence- 26 дней назад
Cos you’re clearly not a ceo. A lot of this was spot on.
@rhombusgil
@rhombusgil 26 дней назад
Master of paradox 😂
@neil.o4
@neil.o4 24 дня назад
I agree.. 5 mins i am never getting back.
@jsraadt
@jsraadt 24 дня назад
Just like a CEO
@cmorsley
@cmorsley 3 месяца назад
“Business is being ask to solve the big problems….” ah shouldn’t they have been doing that anyway? It’s called taking responsibility for the world in which you live. By the way businesses are not being asked to solve the big issues - they are acting on it because there is money in it.
@Nicolelogan-bx9zq
@Nicolelogan-bx9zq 3 месяца назад
Dividends are what got me into investing in the stock market. The thing to me is, if you invest and have other income outside of dividends then you will be able to live off dividends without selling. Which means you can pass that on to your kids which will give them a leg up in life. Have over $600K in my portfolio as I bought a lot of dividend stocks before, I'm buying more now, and I will buy more when it drops further.
@Stros699
@Stros699 3 месяца назад
Analysing bitcoin and its carbon footprint is not an environment world business watch all we need is an establishment investment I made over a thousands of doll..
@EddyHerrera-cf6qr
@EddyHerrera-cf6qr 3 месяца назад
I subscribed for a few trading courses but it didn't help much, been getting suggestions to use a proper financial advisor, how did you go about touching base with your adviser
@hannieLech_user83
@hannieLech_user83 3 месяца назад
No one knows what is around the corner for this present Market. One only has to invest at their own risk or trade with a professional trader.
@LasLas-xf7po
@LasLas-xf7po 3 месяца назад
Everything is down right especially SEC lawsuit against Binance and Coinbase situation which is the perfect time to trade crypto! Don't sleep on these opportunities!
@LasLas-xf7po
@LasLas-xf7po 3 месяца назад
Elizabeth Rossiello is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You'd find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
@John-zh1ud
@John-zh1ud 3 месяца назад
The paradox with CEOs is they talk a lot and say little of substance, act like they're intelligent but just follow fads, act like they're ethical until you learn more, act like they're willing to make tough choices until tough situations come. Ultimately those that make it there are just the ones who liked playing the game it took to get there.
@johnsaat1
@johnsaat1 20 дней назад
Far from true in my experience having worked directly with multiple CEOs
@Odraude4Z87
@Odraude4Z87 20 дней назад
Which is why real people have no respect for them, unless they are deceived fans.
@sadderwhiskeymann
@sadderwhiskeymann 3 месяца назад
Oh poor CEOs, i geel so lucky thst I'm the last of the last of my company's structure. What a ton of bullcrap 💩💩💩
@browe
@browe 3 месяца назад
"Companies were still largely run on the militaristic model..." and many are still today, when clearly we understand how command -> control / "thinker" -> "doer" formal structures are fragile in the face of volatility, uncertainty, and true complexity. That was fine for widget-making; we're not in that world today. Why is the role of CEO even a given?
@theolumy8627
@theolumy8627 3 месяца назад
So out of curiosity, who or what position do you think should lead the company?
@browe
@browe 3 месяца назад
@@theolumy8627 I'll recommend one of the resources that originally got me thinking about alternative structures: Corporate Rebels. Their work highlights many structures that successfully operate (at scale!) without traditional management arrangements. One example is the healthcare company, Buurtzorg, which has over 14,000 people organized in a highly autonomous network--with a central support team of ~ 20 coaches and two directors. In the US, for-profit companies can choose to operate as certified Benefit Corporations in most states, and directors/officers can be arranged as needed, but there's no requirement for a "CEO".
@PhantomRaspberryBlower
@PhantomRaspberryBlower 3 месяца назад
The military have long gone past using the command and control model for many decades. Althought the Russians have stuck with it in Ukraine....
@fukinbith
@fukinbith 2 месяца назад
Radical Candor is a good book to read about this as well
@carpballet
@carpballet 3 месяца назад
CEOs have one of two objectives: What’s best for the company and everything else is expendable or what’s best for themselves and everything else is expendable. If they appear to like people it’s to get something from them. It really requires a person of zero morals and zero empathy.
@Here4TheHeckOfIt
@Here4TheHeckOfIt 3 месяца назад
"...it [being a CEO] really requires a person of zero morals, and zero empathy". It does seem that way sometimes, doesn't it? And if they do have a shred of these qualities, they resort to using rationalizations 🙁
@mack-uv6gn
@mack-uv6gn 3 месяца назад
Every CEO I know delegate, and get paid a lot to do so.
@alexsolosm
@alexsolosm 3 месяца назад
It isn't about delegating work to people. It is about delegating the right work to the right people. Something you can't even begin to imagine until you are one.
@mack-uv6gn
@mack-uv6gn 3 месяца назад
@@alexsolosm really? You don’t know me.
@sjhaji
@sjhaji 3 месяца назад
Yeah Sir quite impressive for paradox
@God7OD
@God7OD 2 месяца назад
Golden parachute baby
@bionicgeff
@bionicgeff 3 месяца назад
How tragic, lets pay them more
@AmanSingh-lv9qp
@AmanSingh-lv9qp 3 месяца назад
If you are into fantasy there is this story of a ceo that gets reincarnated into the past when he was a starting employee of that company. The name of the manhwa is " A man's man"
@RicardoMorenoAlmeida
@RicardoMorenoAlmeida 3 месяца назад
Most CEO's are psychopaths. What we need is to do is figure out how to choose leaders that are actually good, and not just looking out for the ingroup (themselves, the board and the "stock market").
@rbr1170
@rbr1170 3 месяца назад
And it makes sense. Many of the psychopatic traits (especially lack of fear, need for stimulation, shallow emotion, charm, lack of very minimal empathy) are useful for what a CEO of a large company does: making decisions efficiently. Too much fear delays or halt decision-making, the complexity of company activities cannot be handled by someone who just likes to take it easy while the competition is trying to kill, you cannot be too emotional when coming up and making decisions, and without charm it will be difficult to sell hard decisions, too much empathy will limit what you can do because every decision will have a negative effect on someone inside and outside of the company. The competitive nature of business enterprise requires a different kind of person and therefore a different kind of leader. Should we test for psycopathy and prevents them from becoming CEO? If you want businesses to fail, sure. The key should be having a board that can balance those traits. The problem is that most shareholders are actually worse than the CEO because they feel safe supporting a bad CEO (bad in that he makes decision with zero empathy and purely for personal gain) because they are hidden. If we can put major share/stockholders on the spotlight too you will see that it is not really just the CEO having psychopathic traits that is the main problem. A CEO remains accountable to sharehodlers but shareholders are willing to look the other way when they know they are going to make a bigger margin. The thinking that the CEO is just the leader we should be watching is how most companies get away with destroying the planet. In the face of bad publicity a company just replaces a the CEO but the people who should have known what the company was and is doing are still there.
@justsamurai6984
@justsamurai6984 3 месяца назад
You read Corruptible? :)
@comets4sale
@comets4sale 3 месяца назад
The Chomsky book?
@edenassos
@edenassos 3 месяца назад
"What we need to do is figure out how to choose leaders that are actually good". Words that mean nothing. You're clearly broke and living paycheck to paycheck. Go be woke somewhere else.
@rohitdutt5418
@rohitdutt5418 3 месяца назад
Stop giving them credit all they did was to start charging people for literally everything first google and then apple you either get 2-3 ads or have to pay for half of features even after paying almost 1300-1500 $
@mawla3836
@mawla3836 3 месяца назад
To become ceo you just have to learn how to dodge reasonable fact
@ConsumerElectroFeed
@ConsumerElectroFeed 2 месяца назад
Funny thing is, no bady here is a CEO of a Big Corporate 😂
@noy.sulober
@noy.sulober 2 месяца назад
Don't generalize. Have you been a CEO, if yes, then I will probably believe you. 😂
@stenorio90
@stenorio90 3 месяца назад
CEO's being held accountable? Why the lies, guy?
@jefferson6449
@jefferson6449 23 дня назад
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that accountability talk was some kind of sick joke
@howeichin4103
@howeichin4103 3 месяца назад
Ohhh
@chrisdemelo6660
@chrisdemelo6660 3 месяца назад
Skynet will be the ceo now. Look at me……. I’m the CEO now. 😊
@aduad
@aduad 3 месяца назад
False, everyone would want the CEO job when they see not just the pay but also the severance they'd get if they fail...not to mention CEO's delegate 95% of the work anyway.
@FlyingTigersKMT
@FlyingTigersKMT 3 месяца назад
Until you do then you don't anymore
@austinkelly5441
@austinkelly5441 3 месяца назад
Delegation of 95% of tasks is the largest misconception people have about CEO’s. Those tasks you think are 95% of their work are really just the 5% tip of the iceberg that you see coming out of the water.
@nancyferrier8609
@nancyferrier8609 3 месяца назад
They get a Golden Parachute even if they run a corporation into the ground.
3 месяца назад
Have you ever had a leadership position?
@nancyferrier8609
@nancyferrier8609 3 месяца назад
@ Yes, ran businesses, sat on boards and helped to create a noprofit. Why would you assume otherwise? You make yourself rediculous.
@joelharris4399
@joelharris4399 3 месяца назад
Heavy is the crown, sort of thing👑
@alexsolosm
@alexsolosm 3 месяца назад
Wow, the number of salty people in this comment sections makes you why people go to supermarket for salt.
@Here4TheHeckOfIt
@Here4TheHeckOfIt 3 месяца назад
Open your eyes. You'll realize why they're so salty
@Nimosomething
@Nimosomething 3 месяца назад
They're salty because they called bullshit?
@SnufjeZout-jz5lh
@SnufjeZout-jz5lh 2 месяца назад
The B-roll for this item is so bad that it makes the entire story super cringe, and the story itself is already quite cringe to begin with. Which free stock site did the firstday intern get it from?
@mishmohd
@mishmohd 24 дня назад
bruh stop venerating CEOs bruh fr bruh on God they're salary men
@user-cz1nh1hv9v
@user-cz1nh1hv9v 3 месяца назад
24 hours constant stress and trade off- simply dont have the emotional intelligence to become one
@comeconcon569
@comeconcon569 Месяц назад
No.instead, I want to be a CFO.
@simplysunmoon
@simplysunmoon 3 месяца назад
❤️☀️🌙
@virtualreality-xu6ji
@virtualreality-xu6ji 3 месяца назад
I love the idea of leading I am just afraid of the mental tole it can have on you
@jhwheuer
@jhwheuer 3 месяца назад
Two burnouts later, I am happy you are conscious of that danger
@Here4TheHeckOfIt
@Here4TheHeckOfIt 3 месяца назад
What stress do you have when the law covers your ass when you mess up?
@franciscodenilsondeabreuma152
@franciscodenilsondeabreuma152 3 месяца назад
Do you know what's harder than anything mentioned in this video? Work 12 hours a day and still don't have enough money to sustain your family. And be honest, most CEO got to their position by indication, not competence, and their delegate most of his work and anything that goes wrong to somebody else
@Curds301
@Curds301 3 месяца назад
Nice try to humanize the CEO.
@EvoraGT430
@EvoraGT430 3 месяца назад
Not a chance.
@RicardoMorenoAlmeida
@RicardoMorenoAlmeida 3 месяца назад
Most CEOs are psychopaths.
@DaMorg3
@DaMorg3 21 день назад
Don’t paint in so broad a brush. Every company needs a leader. You can argue all day about whether or not executive compensation is within the realm of the reasonable or proportionate to the value the average CEO adds for all _stakeholders_ (rather than shareholders)… I’d guess most people other than CEOs, board members, and institutional investors would argue it’s not. However, someone has to do the job, and we should not discount the difficulty of the role, nor the humanity of the person doing it. Acknowledging that difficulty does not mean we have to ignore the problem of horrendous and worsening income inequality largely due to the difficulty of legislating/policing multinational corporations who are, 99.999% of the time, functionally beholden to no one but their shareholders. As they say, heavy hangs the head who wears the crown, aka it’s lonely at the top. This is not an apology. It’s a reality.
@UBETUBEME
@UBETUBEME 3 месяца назад
You Love Trump ? Turn off the Supper Bowl 😂
@hepcatliz
@hepcatliz 3 месяца назад
CEOs being accountable? yeah, right. Only to the shareholders. gotta get those profits up boys! what a boring video 👎
@mkinvincible
@mkinvincible 3 месяца назад
Let me guess, this guy is slling conferences to CEO’s. What a waste of time.
@DobosSArpad
@DobosSArpad 23 дня назад
Are you an employee of a company or a solopreneur? The statement reveals a context missing awareness of what a leaders role entails.
@mkinvincible
@mkinvincible 22 дня назад
@@DobosSArpad I am in the medical field. I make hard decisions for a living. Occasional high stakes life/death. What he says is not wrong; I do not see the value. He did not say anything novel or valuable to me.
@OmarGonzalez-re3jz
@OmarGonzalez-re3jz 3 месяца назад
Not true for the most part… sad
@erickaphin8861
@erickaphin8861 3 месяца назад
💩💩💩 unsubbed
@hjtam88
@hjtam88 3 месяца назад
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, the reality is you need connections, privileged family background and so forth in order to get into top positions
@carlosvera2807
@carlosvera2807 3 месяца назад
For the traditional CEO and executives you may be right, those are not worth interviewing. But for self-made CEO is a very stressful work. I have met a few of them
@manujsharma1432
@manujsharma1432 3 месяца назад
What a load of baloney...
@olivierlessard6783
@olivierlessard6783 3 месяца назад
I can't believe how much this channel has fallen in terms of the quality of its content. It has completly turned into a boot licking corporate ideology factory. Here's my unsubscription.
@crazycool1128
@crazycool1128 3 месяца назад
propaganda
@CJ-sg3fc
@CJ-sg3fc 22 дня назад
Idiotic title.
@flameinkz
@flameinkz 3 месяца назад
Best video here simple and short yet very informative READY 4 WAR - FLAMEINKZ
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