Things that keep CEOs awake at night

by Warren Longwell

Jeff Kindler has been CEO at Pfizer since mid-2006, and I think of him whenever I think about the next President of The United States. Kindler, like the person who will follow George W. Bush, took the helm from a predecess...read more

by Harvey Stelman

The average CEO does not waste his/her time thinking about who is in line to replace them, there simply isn't time for that. Besides, the CEO usually chooses who will back him/her up. It takes a lot of ego, and confiden...read more

by Emmanuel Osondu

What exactly does the abbreviation CEO stand for? Simple,Chief Executive Officer. As the title implies, the CEO is the top dog in a large corporation.He reports to the Chairman of the Board. The buck stops on his table....read more

by Brian Keith Compton

From what I read in the news today, many top corporate executives should be losing sleep. The projected image of CEOs suggests they are overpaid and do little to help their companies get ahead. The first thing I think a...read more

by Ted Sherman

What keeps a CEO awake at night? William Shakespeare said it precisely in Henry IV: "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown". In that story, the king's son was plotting to replace him, possibly kill him. Today's CEO doesn...read more

by Vincent LeVine

Have you ever watched a movie where in an opening scene a Martian lands on Earth and the first words out of its mouth are "Take me to your leader"? - Of course you have. Even fluorescent-green Martians know whom they shoul...read more

by Fred Tolleson

A litany of the things that keep CEO's awake at night should be required reading for all. This group of people who have attained the rank of Chief Executive Officer is about as mixed a bag of attainment as this country ha...read more

by Gary C. Gibson

'Troubled Sleep' was a novel by Sartre after the second world war that most C.E.O.'s probably haven't read. Instead they stay up night looking for loopholes in Peter Drucker's notion that CEO pay shouldn't be higher than t...read more

by Alex Kee

Nothing but his own anxiety: real or imagined; caffeine or other physical distractions. Everyone who is sufficiently tired and not otherwise threatened with security concern will fall asleep and CEO or no CEO, there is ...read more

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by Anand Sanwal

The 10 Un-Commandments of Corporate Innovation Innovation tends to come into vogue every few years with the popular media coming out with a host of most innovative companies, management gurus talking about innovation be...read more

by Stan Dyer

When I first read this title, "Things that keep CEOs awake at night", I laughed heartily. Then, I thought about it. I recalled many CEOs who drove their companies to bankruptcy only to walk away with loaded bank accounts ...read more

by Royce Radcliffe

We all suffer form insomnia from time to time but CEOs suffer more than most. In a recent study released by Phantom Sleep Magazine CEOs were said to sleep an average of one hour less per night than the average American. So...read more

by Heather Moreland

I, myself, am not a CEO. While pondering what might keep a CEO awake at night, two stories unfolded in my mind. If a CEO were to value money more than people I imagine cries and prayers would be what keeps him awake...read more

by Daphne Still

CEO's earning's are out of control, I want to understand what makes a company think a CEO is worth so much more than the guy involved in building and shipping the product. This person spends 8 to 10 hours a day on his feet...read more

by Adam Smith

I literally just finished "Robinson Crusoe" 20 minutes before clicking on my Helium link. As many of you in the literary community have read this, you may know that the point of the story is that the high stations in life ...read more

by Mushtaq Maxwell

What are the things that keep CEOs awake at night? Well, if the company is a publicly traded company, then the answer becomes more complex. I would say however the top four things are the bottom line, maintaining a clean p...read more

by Richard Fouts

"We need to change the culture," is a phrase bantered about when the organization's ability to respond to changing business conditions isn't working very well. But how do you change something as abstract as corporate cultu...read more

by Iren Charpentier

Consider this: work as we know it is Obsolete! The CEO in reality is a coordinator of the action that her/his company is engaged in...and the action is not real...most work is annoying at best..we are led to believe that ...read more

by Liza Nuing

I'm putting on my CEO hat and I'm pretty sure as CEO I would be lying awake thinking of: 1. The people I'm going to have to fire tomorrow. 2. Watching my back once those people have been fired. 3. The client who was t...read more

by Stacey Monponsett

- "I make so much money, the sound of the interest generating keeps me up." - "I try to roll over, but my wallet is too big." - "Does it count as 3 or 1 if the black, Jew, handicapped Affirmative Action hires are all...read more