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Are you a Wartime or Peacetime CEO ?
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.
Are you a Wartime or Peacetime CEO ?
- 1. Peacetime CEO WartimeCEO 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 15 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 ?