Francis Wade | A CEO’s ego – Now clinging to prior success

Your CEO has a strong ego. Most successful ones do. It carried him through the growth years, and it now sits at the centre of every conversation about the company’s future. Right now, that same ego is working against him. At the last strategy meeting, you raised a simple idea: pause and examine what is actually driving five straight years of record numbers. He cut you off mid-sentence. He defended those numbers as if you had attacked him personally, not questioned the plan behind them.