Adopted from the following great leadership quote of Simon Sinek
“A Chief Executive Officer is actually a Chief Vision Officer, someone who is responsible for setting and articulating and ensuring the organization is heading in one direction and then hiring the people and giving them direction beyond the short term.
Look at the success of companies like Apple , Microsoft , SWA and you realize how the combination of a person who knew WHY and a person who knew HOW resulted in such an iconic organization.
Paul Allen had the HOW whereas Bill Gates had the WHY to create a PC industry and Microsoft came out as an industry icon.Had Gates not had the vision Paul Allen could not created his magic for Microsoft.
Same holds good for Apple.Steve Jobs had the WHY whereas Steve Wozniak knew HOW to translate the WHY into reality.
It is a proven fact that in any iconic organization the combination of a CEO who knew WHY and a COO who knew HOW has always been a deadly combination.
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book the Infinite Game
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game, this blogpost highlights why it is high time to rename CEO to Chief Vision Officer.
CEO needs to have a vision and needs to communicate a JUST CAUSE to the employees in an organization.
Whereas COO and CFO are more focused on supporting this vision of the CEO.
As per Simon Sinek , CEO needs to know WHY the organization exists in the first place and how to communicate the same to the employees as well.
COO as well as CFO know the HOW to get to that vision and do not have a macro view.Hence the time has come to rename the role of CEO to CVO or Chief Vision Officer to make sure the fact that the prime responsibility of a CEO is to have a macro view and communicate the vision to the organization.
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book The Infinite Game
A CEO’s job is to ensure everyone clearly understands the vision or the just cause and all C level execs direct their efforts to advance the just cause
Since the CEO is the holder , communicator and protector of the vision , the person will be better equipped to discharge responsibilities if he/she steps into the role of a Chief Vision Officer or CVO
In an infinite game thus the new title of a CEO should be CVO
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book “The Infinite Game”
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s book titled “The Infinite Game”
The top three positions of a company i.e. the CEO(Chief Executive Officer) , COO(Chief Operating Officer) & CFO(Chief Financial Officer) are responsible for running a company.
Chief Executive Officer is the one who needs to have the vision to run a company with an infinite mindset.This is the position where the need is to help the organization keep playing an infinite game and hence the position should be better known as CVO(Chief Vision Officer).This is more to do with the “macro aspects” of managing the company.
On the other hand requisite support on “micro aspects” should be provided to the CVO by the COO and CFO.
This should lay the basis of running the company with an infinite mindset.
For playing the infinite game of business with an infinite mindset the modern day CEO needs to be a visionary putting people’s priorities first over bottom line ,stock markets etc.
A finite mindset wherein bottom line , profit margins become the first priority over people issues , though successful in the short term can lead to severe detrimental effects in the long term.
This is why the need of the hour is no longer a CEO but a CVO(Chief Vision Officer) who would put people priorities first , make the life of employees meaningful and inspiring in advancing the “just cause” of the organization.
Simon Sinek makes a mention of the same in his book titled “The Infinite Game”