My Ideal CEO

“CSR just doesn’t work.”
“What are you crazy?”
“I don’t think we can do this.”

My ideal CEO in the realm of CSR will hear the aforementioned statements throughout her entire career. Thus, within the integral framework for leadership, she embodies the world-centric stage of the line of development of managing fear and anxiety. To manage this fear and anxiety and maintain motivation, she does not ethnocentrically talk about how the organization compares to competitors, but rather constantly reminds her employees how they are helping to change the world. Similarly, she is extremely proactive in developing both her employees and the organization. She supports specific lines of development within employees such as creative innovation, the ability to adapt to new methods, team building, and creating a need through extensive training and providing incentives like promotions from within. Through talking with her employees about five key lines of personal development—efficiency, happiness, cultural pressure, balance, and proactiveness—she has an accurate perception of what her employees need and seeks to meet these needs.

On a personal level, my ideal CEO has thoroughly developed the ability to listen and understand; she listens because she genuinely cares about me as an individual. Through active listening, she recognizes my many different identities—which range from an only daughter to an ESTJ—and is excellent at understanding, mediating, and managing my different identities in relation to her own identities and those of my fellow employees. Recognizing my conflicting identities of a family member and dedicated employee, she encourages finding a balance between these identities, instead of promoting overachieving at work to the detriment of my family.

My ideal CEO is patient—with me, my fellow employees, and the world. Rather than succumbing to the cultural pressure of defining success through your bottom line, she manages the cultural pressure by defining success differently: through three bottom lines instead of one. By focusing on environmental sustainability and social responsibility in addition to profits, she continues to lead the way in improving the world, even if no on realizes it yet. With her extreme dedication and previously mentioned abilities, any organization would be successful under her, because she creates relevance through leading by example and empowers others to change the world.