CEOs also have the blues

Manfred Kets de Vries

European Management Journal, 1994, vol. 12, issue 3, 259-264

Abstract: Many middle-aged CEOs feel they have been in the job too long, but fear the alternative - they experience the 'blues'. Manfred Kets de Vries explores the question of whether there is an optimum time for a CEO to be effective in the job, and if there is such a thing as a life-cycle for CEOs. Conceptually, CEOs can be said to pass through three stages while in the job - experimentation, consolidation and decline (the last might be short-circuited by renewal). Advice is given to CEOs who find themselves stuck in the third stage and fearful of no longer being effective.

Date: 1994
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