If the Shoe Fits: Who are you?
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
How would you respond to what works best?
Do you agree with Carlos Brito, Brazilian chief of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV?
“If you want the best out of people you have to put pressure on them all the time.”
Or are you more like Shamsheer Vayalil, founder and managing director of VPS Healthcare, founded in 2007; today it has 650 physicians and 7,500 employees and serves some 2 million patients a year?
I was a good listener. I would listen to people. I would accept that I didn’t have any experience. So I hired the best people on the job.
If you’ve read much of what I write you’ll know I support Shamsheer’s attitude far more than Brito.
As do Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos.
Different approaches, both yielding success.
Either way the message is clear: the best CEOs in the world listen more, whether it’s to customers, employees, or business partners — and doing so can go a long way.
Yet another reason to make sure you know yourself.
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