21 Entrepreneurs Explain What Being A CEO Means To Them

#15- Knowing what the big picture is and making well thought out decisions based on it.

That’s an immense responsibility, and it requires openness, self-awareness, and the willingness to hear bad news and face reality. It’s humbling, frankly, to know the limits of your own capacities; there is not a mind on earth who could successfully juggle everything a gigantic multinational corporation needs all on their own. So we have to trust others, which is hard for CEOs – who tend to be go-get’er-done people – to give us reliable data and analysis so that we can plot an appropriate course. We need to try to stay humble in the face of everything we don’t know and everything we can’t see. That’s what makes a good CEO.