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Pathways to the Top: How to Become a CEO
The CEO is responsible for the success or failure of the company: Operations, marketing, strategy, financing, creation of company culture, human resources, hiring, firing, compliance with safety regulations, sales, PR, all falls on the CEO's shoulders.
Although some individuals are born leaders, most are made…
It starts with…school days:97% of CEOs have a bachelor's degree29% have an MBA2.4% have no degree at all52: Age at which average CEO starts the job.
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While pursuing an MBA take core courses in:AccountingMarketingFinancingOperationsManagerial Decision Making,Managerial Accounting,Network Structures of Effective ManagementCompetitive StrategyLeadership Effectiveness and Development programsPublic speaking
CEOs who are Ivy League graduates:Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard, Princeton, HarvardJeffrey Immelt, General Electric, Dartmouth, HarvardJamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase, HarvardRoberto Goizueta, former CEO of Coca Cola , Yale
Drop Outs:Richard Branson, Virgin GroupMark Zuckerburg, FacebookLarry Ellison, Oracle
Top 10 total degrees given to fortune 500 CEOs:
Harvard: 65Stanford: 27Penn: 24Columbia: 18Notre Dame: 14Michigan: 14Cornell: 13Dartmouth: 12Indiana: 11MIT: 10
Is there diversity among CEOs? Not really. [White males have a decided advantage]Women CEOsThere are currently 24 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 and 27 in the Fortune 1000.
There are six Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 1.2 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOsThere are 10 Latino CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 2 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs.
Working Your Way Up the Ladder
Generally speaking, a person must have a great deal of experience in the company's field in order to become CEO. Senior level management experience helps.
How some successful CEOs started:Anne Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox started as a sales representative.Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Novell and the executive chairman of Google worked in research at Bell Labs early in his career.Andrea Jung, former CEO of Avon Products, was Chief Operation Officer at Avon before becoming CEOJack Welch, General Electric, started as an engineer.
Personality/characteristics of CEOs1. Domain expertise (technology or other)2. Leadership & personal power3. Financial savvy4. Ability to pitch and close5. Honor6. Realism7. Perseverance8. Patience9. Perspective on the larger scheme of things10. Courage to move forward, or stop, and to know when to do either one.
It's well worth the hard work to get to the top:Top 2013 CEO annual pay and benefits [cash, stock and options]:1. Larry Ellison, Oracle, $78.4 million2. Robert Iger, Disney, $34.3 million3. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., $26.1 million4. David Cote, Honeywell, $25.45. David Farr, Emerson Electric, $25.3 million
Top 5 2012 CEO-to employee pay ratio:1. Ronald Johnson, J.C. Penny [Note: Johnson has just been replaced]Pay and benefits: $53.3 millionAverage employee salary: $29,688Ratio:1,7952. Michael Jeffries, Abercrombie and FitchPay and benefits: $48.1 millionAverage employee salary: $29,310Ratio: 1,6403. David Simon, Simon Property GroupPay and benefits: $137 millionAverage employee salary: $86,033Ratio:1,5944. Larry Ellison, OraclePay and benefits: $96,2 millionAverage employee salary: $74,693Ratio:1,2875. Howard Schultz, StarbucksPay and benefits: $28.9 millionAverage employee salary: $25,463Ratio:1,135
2 Lowest CEO to employee ratios1. Larry Page, GooglePay and benefits: $1Average employee salary: $102,000Ratio:.012. Jeff Bezos, AmazonPay and benefits: $1.7 millionAverage employee salary: $91,600Ratio: 18
On average, American CEOs in 2013 earned 331 X the average worker salary: $11.3 million to $35,293.In 2014, American CEOs earned 354 X the average worker salary.
The Future CEO: 5 key traits1. Transparency: When it comes to the goals and mission of a business, the CEO of tomorrow will bring the entire team into the bigger conversation2. Flexibility: The nature of business is continually reinventing itself in both the digital space and (often consequently) in the brick-and-mortar3. Collaboration: Millennials grew up on social media and have a more collaborative approach to work4. Empowerment: Leadership in the remainder of this decade will be deeply connected to the idea of the whole employee.5. Host: the role of the leader is more like a host than a hero—drawing people together around an issue or challenge.
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