Posts Tagged“CEO”

The Skills Needed to Become a CEO

Who wouldn’t want to be a CEO? Unfortunately, not everybody can do it. Most who do become CEO go through a lot of growing and different jobs before they get to that point. Take Charles Phillips Infor CEO who had affairs with Oracle, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Air Force before getting to that position. There is no exact list of skills you have to have to become a CEO, or experiences you have to go through, or either path you have to walk. That said, if you truly want to reach that position,…

The Pros and Cons of Being a CEOs Wife

The vast majority of CEOs in this country are men, and most of those men are married. This means that they all have wives, who have to deal with being a CEOs wife. Many complain the fact that they rarely see their husbands. In fact, for Karen Phillips, wife of CEO Charles Phillips Infor ‘affair’ is a better way to describe the relationship he has with his work. But she will be ready to admit that there are advantages to every disadvantage of being married to a CEO. So if your husband is about to take up that position, what…

The Identity Crisis that Successful African Americans Face

Successful people face a common difficulty, which is answering the question ‘what’s next?’. This question is simply a part of life for most people, but it leads to a true identity question in young African American men in particular. This is due to a number of reasons, but not in the least because black men have so very few role models to model their career on. While there are the likes of Charles E Phillips Infor CEO, and Ursula Burns, Xerox CEO, these are no longer truly young. And even older African Americans are significantly underrepresented in positions of leadership.…