The Freakonomics podcast recently started covering the topic of what it takes to be CEO, and was happy to hear that there is no secret formula, zilch. Though I couldn’t help but feel like yelling the whole time “you are asking the wrong question!” I think they could have spared us the other follow up episodes to this series - while entertaining, I feel that exploration has come at the expense of a deeper analysis. There are many other factors to consider – like composition of support teams, the organization’s history, and current economic conditions. How then do we end, or least tone down, the infatuation on leadership?
