What makes a CEO ‘exceptional’?

 

…CEOs who are hired externally tend to pull more strategic levers than those who come from within and outperform their internal counterparts over tenure. Our research on exceptional CEOs reinforced this finding: these CEOs are twice as likely to have been hired from outside the company …, and roughly 1.5 times as likely to have been external hires as the other top-quintile CEOs.

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