CEO Snack: Value of Outside Peers…

Make sure to keep your energy up today. Here are a couple snacks to chew on:

9 Reach out for support. It’s lonely at the top and having a couple trusted advisors or peers outside your company who you can run things by will help you learn new tricks, see things from different perspectives and avoid costly errors that others not caught in the thick of it can see.

8 Get objective feedback about your own performance as a leader. Rarely do you see yourself as others do. Be actively involved in continuous self-improvement as top executive, like a professional athletes are. Be a model for continuous improvement by doing it yourself.

Reading: What You Can’t Learn at Harvard about Leadership: 100+ Tips Learned in the Trenches by Carl Robinson, Ph.D.

I find that the most effective CEOs are life-long learners. They schedule time for ongoing personal development. Are you dying to learn, grow and develop?

Please share your approach with me.