{"id":1981,"date":"2013-11-17T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T11:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2013-11-17T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T11:38:05","slug":"make-the-new-ceo-an-intern-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/make-the-new-ceo-an-intern-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Make the new CEO an intern first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a really good idea.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Experience matters? The Impact of Prior CEO Experience on Firm Performance&#8221; discusses research by Monika Hamori of the IE Business School in Spain and Burack Koyuncu of the NEOMA Business School in France which indicates that &#8220;past performance is not an indicator of future success&#8221;.\u00a0 That sounds like the waiver in most financial documents, and good advice.<\/p>\n<p>Their suggestion on how to ensure that a new CEO hits the ground running is smart.\u00a0 They suggest putting CEOs with prior experience in an interim position for at least a year before they take on the full CEO role. This, they say, would enable them to acquire company-specific knowledge and also to \u201cunlearn\u201d some of the assumptions about the job.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/rogertrapp\/2013\/11\/14\/for-ceos-past-performance-is-no-guarantee-of-future-success\/?\">For CEOs Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Success<\/a> by Roger Trapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a really good idea.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Experience matters? The Impact of Prior CEO Experience on Firm Performance&#8221; discusses research by Monika Hamori of the IE Business School in Spain and Burack Koyuncu of the NEOMA Business School in France which indicates that &#8220;past performance is not an indicator of future success&#8221;.\u00a0 That sounds like &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/make-the-new-ceo-an-intern-first\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make the new CEO an intern first.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-entrepreneurship-venturecapital"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-vX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}