I think the most importan CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next fix five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decision along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly. Iam a firm believer that to really understand a business taks years,not months.As an investment analyst you think you understand a business from the outside,but the reality is that once you are inside, you can go on learing for five or ten years. I was always acting primarly with shareholder interests in mind. It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business,and would not do anything that I considered improper,As a consequence, i have occasinally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoid.

Chris Corrigan Ceo forumgroup.com