The document compares the characteristics of a peacetime CEO versus a wartime CEO. A peacetime CEO focuses on maintaining processes, empowering leaders, and recruiting at scale. They define culture, understand expectations, and operate in an expanding market. In contrast, a wartime CEO violates processes to win, micromanages details, can hire and fire rapidly, and defines culture through war. They are paranoid about expectations, focus on winning a shrinking market, have no tolerance for deviations from plans, and focus on winning battles rather than career development or rules.
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Are you a Wartime or Peacetime CEO ?
1. Peacetime CEO Wartime CEO
1 Maintains protocol 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Violates protocol to win
2
Focuss on big picture, Empowers
leaders to look at detail 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Believes devil is in the detail. Micromanages
3
Scalablehigh volumerecruiting
machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 HR organisation thatcan hireand fire
4 Defines the Culture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 War defines the Culture
5
Understands expectations, and
delivers to satisfaction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paranoid aboutexpectations,never satisfied
6 Operates in an expanding market 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Wins in a hypercompetitive, shrinkingmarket
7 Mindset is to grow the market 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mindset is to win the market
8
Tolerates deviations fromplan,when
coupled with effort and creativity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 No tolerancefor deviations fromPlan
9 Sets big audacious goals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Has no time to read books
10 Focus on Career development 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Focus on winningbattles, and eventually the war
11 Works with Contingency Plans 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rolls with the punches
12 Minimises conflict 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Heightens conflicts to win
13 Seeks broadbased buy in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Does not build consensus nor brooks disagreements
14 Works with Rules 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Knows that in War there areno Rules
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Does not raiseher voice, or uses
profanities 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rarely speaks in a normal voice, freely uses profanities
Are you a Wartime or a Peacetime CEO ?