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2010/05 - No Longer Lonely at the Top

no longer lonely at the top

17 May 2010

SMH / The Age / Brisbane Times

You've made it. You have the oak-paneled office. You're flying first class. At last, you're a CEO. But one day, not too long into the job, you look around.

Now you're a CEO who can you talk to - candidly - about the problems and challenges you're facing?

As a CEO it's a common experience to feel lonely, separated and unable to access support. "When you run a business everyone agrees with you and it's easy to think you have a monopoly on the right answer. The people around you depend on you for their livelihood, which changes the dynamic between people.

It's easy to lose perspective, which is why you need a peer group who feel comfortable taking you to task," says Andy Simpkin, CEO of Belaroma Coffee, who is also a member of The Executive Connection, a mentoring group for CEOs.

Although the perception is that it can be lonely at the top there are many different networks, both formal and informal, on which to draw as a CEO, and there's no need for CEOs to feel isolated.

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