In continuing with our musings on what a CEO should be, we came up with a second trait that every one of our successes displayed: Entrepreneurial mentality.
Entrepreneurs are known for their wide reaching abilities, for trying things that haven’t been tried before and not being afraid to do so.
Entrepreneurs reach out beyond their own organization and industry; they listen and talk to people from a wide range of backgrounds. They encourage, support and solicit off-the-wall ideas and then use experience and imagination to make the idea come to life. Boards like a CEO with an entrepreneurial bend who can ‘think outside of the box’—who is not afraid to try out new ideas that come from beyond the association management norm.
To be entrepreneurial, demonstrate that you are on the lookout for—and open to—innovative management and leadership ideas from anywhere; from other CEOs, other industries, even other countries. Boards often say they need a CEO with new “energy” and ideas that will either bring in new income or cut costs without sacrificing services. So do just that, come equipped with some innovative ways in which you can effect positive change in the association through unconventional and creative means. If you never considered yourself as a particularly inventive risk-taker-type, then make sure you surround yourself with people who are.
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