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Why Simplicity Is The Key To You Becoming A Great Startup CEO
I was telling Blossom yesterday that when I was starting my career I thought anyone that was a Vice President of company must be really smart. And you must be unbelievably smart if you were the CEO.
I held CEOs up on a pedestal because of all the knowledge they must have to become a CEO. It’s almost like there was a book of secrets, like in the movie National Treasure, that all CEOs are privy to.
I went on to tell my wife that I realized that as I got older, and I became a CEO, that you didn’t have to be that smart to be a CEO. And there was no book of secrets that CEOs knew about that us mere mortals didn’t know about.
In fact being a great CEO isn’t about learning little tricks, being a great CEO is about simplicity.
Flying back from New York Thursday I watched my favorite comedy of all time, The Big Lewbowski. There’s a great line that John Goodman’s character, Walter, has in the film as he talks about Jewish people:
“A great tradition. From Moses to Sandy Koufax.”
Sandy Koufax is one of my heroes. Koufax arguably was the most dominant pitcher in Major League Baseball history.
