PROPHET Insights
CEO's Striking Preference for Influence over Detail
The PROPHET/Boyden Insights Series are brief articles providing understanding on leadership roles and executive team dynamics. The insights are based on the leadership styles of 10,000 executives and more than 2,500 C-suite leaders, representing organisations worldwide of different sizes, across all sectors. Each article provides statistically significant patterns of CEO behavior; explains the business implications and offers advice for optimising collective performance. In this first article, we review how CEOs prefer motivating their people versus handling the details.