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Summary: A CEO's job description includes three fundamental jobs. Get a description of these three jobs from a business entrepreneur and strategy consultant in this free career video.
Dr. David Furse has more than 30 years experience as a marketing professor, business entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He founded NCG Research, Inc., a consulting and market...read more
CEO stands for Chief Executive Officer, and is often the title of a person who holds the highest position in a company or on a board. Becoming a CEO is very individualized depending upon the size of the company, the person in question’s background and education, and the type of company. Often, when a company first begins, the founder of the company acts as its CEO. Later, if the company is profitable, the founder may recognize he or she is not the best leader for the company, or would like to pursue other career goals and may hire a CEO to run the company. A business entrepreneur, strategy consultant, and marketing professor will be the guide in this free executive career video series about a career as a CEO. He will outline a CEO job description, salary range, qualifications, pros and cons of being a CEO, how and why to become a CEO as well as provide tips and real-life CEO stories. A career as a CEO is difficult to achieve and requires a broad skill set but the personal and financial rewards can be equally difficult to match in any other career.
"The CEO is of course a leader, and a mentor, and a coach for his company and basically has three fundamental jobs. One, is to be the chief strategy officer of the firm, which means really setting the future course of the firm, where it's going, what the company's about. The second one is to create, as the chief human relations officer, to create the kind of company and build the organization that can actually accomplish the strategy. And finally it's the chief investor relations officer, the one who really relates to the board if he or she has one or to investors, the owners of the company, so that they understand what the company's about and can support it and allow it to happen. Well, one of the most important things about a CEO is to recognize that all your work is really working through other people. So if you have meetings, if you're walking around talking to people, it really is getting others to do the work of the firm that has to get done. It's not your job to do it, it's your job to select the people and get them to do what needs to be done. Well certainly the idea of developing a strategy and involving others in the development of the strategy, where the company's going, which involves mission, what you're about, involves the vision for where you want to go, the road map of how to get there and getting the resources to make it happen."
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