CEO Insights: Success, Strategy, and Speed with Eric Eichmann

In the last episode of season one, Jay speaks with Eric Eichmann, CEO of ESW, and long time friend. They talk about Eric's illustrious career in technology, the art of seizing opportunities, creating the best teams, and the critical elements of driving business value and innovation.

Eric:

“What's also interesting about the CEO job that I thought of is, you know, you have to be quote unquote decisive or provide a strong direction that everybody understands and everybody is sort of going towards, but at the same time, you have to be humble enough to listen to everybody. And know that you don't have all the answers, you coming up with your best answer at the time that you're doing it. But if you're humble enough to listen to others, even though you're setting a direction, you're willing to consider, hey, maybe this direction that we took on now based on these new facts and the thoughts that Jay brought to the table or whoever else. Might not be the best. Maybe we should be sort of recalibrating and going to another area. And I think, you know, that's, you mentally, you have to be strong and provide direction and feel pretty, you know, sure of yourself. But you you also have to know that you don't really know often, and you have to be willing to change and be flexible.”

Top(pers) Take: 

1. Be decisive but humble.
2. Don’t take yourself too seriously; take the business seriously.
3. Raise your hand first and figure out logistics later.

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