What Do The World’s Top-Performing CEOs Look Like?
By Josh James, Founder & CEO
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Harvard Business Review recently released a pretty cool scorecard that evaluates the world’s 100 top-performing CEOs. To round out the scorecard’s focus on performance and demographics, we added a little research of our own.
When you look at the data, some of it might surprise you. For example, more than 70% on HBR’s list don’t have a masters’ degree, but only 1% never graduated from college. Did you know that 11% are bald? And almost all have said “I do” which makes it easy to conclude that having a spouse is good for business.
But no matter what stories the demographics tell, they really don’t determine success. I believe it’s more important to study the behaviors and the decisions these CEOs make that get them – and keep them – where they are today.
If you are interested in seeing what you might have in common with the world’s 100 top-performing CEOs, check out our latest infographic below.
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Josh James is at the forefront of innovation as a recognized pioneer in analytics, cloud and SaaS technology. His entrepreneurial drive defines his leadership at Domo, where he’s championing a future in which businesses capitalize on the full potential of data by making it accessible and actionable for everyone. Prior to Domo, Josh was CEO of Omniture, a SaaS-based web analytics company that he co-founded in 1996, took public in 2006 and sold to Adobe in 2009 for $1.8B. As a co-founder of ParityPledge, Josh is committed to growing stronger organizations through investments that will increase diversity. He also has a long history of leading Utah’s sizable tech and startup community as the founder of Silicon Slopes.