The Common Thread Fast-Rising CEOs
Money|May 2018

Want to get ahead at work? Recent research suggests this characteristic is key.

Kristen Bahler
The Common Thread Fast-Rising CEOs
WHAT MAKES A GREAT CEO? Charisma? Drive? The perfect blend of Ivy League degrees, lots of experience, and a blemish-free résumé? Hardly.

According to The CEO Next Door, a new book by leadership consultants Elena Botelho and Kim Powell, the people at the top of the food chain aren’t the prodigies we think they are. Statistically, a chief executive officer is more likely to drop out of or skip college than go to an Ivy League school, they found. And the typical CEO definitely wasn’t “born to lead”—only about 30% of top executives had their eye on the C-suite at the start of their career.

This story is from the May 2018 edition of Money.

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