Article: Warning lights: Finding the perfect prince, Act 2.(choosing chief executive officers)(Brief Article)

Excessive ambition, peripheral vision, and other danger signs to warn you away from certain candidates.

THE MOST CRITICAL JOB of any board member is choosing the company's CEO and top staff. "'Tis true that we are in great danger," directors should feel at that time, much as King Henry V says, "the greater therefore should our courage be."

More such courage is needed to detect and heed warning lights, as given below, than in spotting the positive traits of applicants, as described in our last column ["Finding the Perfect Prince," Summer 2000]. These danger signs include:

* The vertical pronoun, by which a candidate personalizes what was ...

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