The problem is, the typical CEO has to maintain a fairly high level of focus on the organization as a whole. Certainly they face new challenges in their jobs regularly. But these challenges are broad and often on a very large scale. They aren’t necessarily making decisions on detailed issues at the speed of light as can often be the case for most project managers. In order to survive and just hope to emerge with a somewhat successful project, project managers must inherently exemplify the ten characteristics or skills that I’ve listed in this article. CEOs on the other hand, could learn a lot from project managers in these areas and would undoubtedly emerge better leaders of their organizations for it...
