Does Your CEO Have The Right Leadership ‘DNA’?

I was reading the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review and one of the articles, What Sets Successful CEOs Apart, caught my attention for obvious reasons. The authors make the case that the highest-performing chief executive officers (CEOs) tend to share certain qualities — and they may not be the ones you’d guess.

To figure out what characteristics the most successful CEOs have in common, a team of researchers and analysts spanning the University of Chicago, Copenhagen Business School, New York University, and analytics company SAS Inc. conducted a decade-long study, examining the careers, business performance, and . . .