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New book cites decisiveness, consistency as key CEO traits

'The CEO Next Door' draws on leadership ‘genome' study; making a prompt decision is better than making no decision at all Co-authors Elena Botelho, left, and Kim Powell The board may be your boss, but when CEOs fail, it's usually about the team under them, not the directors above them. That's among the key findings detailed in the upcoming book "The CEO Next Door" by two principals at consulting firm ghSMART, based on 10 years of research on more than 2,600 leaders in the corporate and nonprofit spheres. The study, called the CEO Genome Project, made the cover of Harvard Business Review last year. "What was a shocking finding was that while the board is by far the number… Read More