The challenge of being a business leader is that a majority of people will tell you what (they believe) you want to hear instead of what you need to hear.
Trust and confidence are probably two essential characteristics of the CEOs job description.
Trust – in and from your team – relies on daily alignment between your convictions and your postures. Even though you are only human and entitled to have doubts, you don’t have the luxury to let them get the best of you; you are under constant scrutiny as being the one in charge.
Confidence requires for you to truly stay in touch with all realities of the business(1) to stay on top of the game, and as a silver lining keeping a cool head without the spinning. Time management, task prioritising and taking a step back are some of the solutions, not so easy to implement when you are in the midst of the action.
(1) customers, staff, organisation, stakeholders,…