Justus O'Brien
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Thank you, Emma.
It's great to be here.
So Emma, the biggest difference is the ticking clock.
The average tenure of a CEO is six to seven years, sometimes more.
While the average tenure of an interim CEO is nine months or less.
A new CEO usually gets a honeymoon from the board and that honeymoon can be up to two years.
An interim CEO gets a stopwatch.
So there's a lot that he or she needs to get done in a very short period of time.
I think that's the most fundamental difference.
Emma, the most fraught word in interim leadership is ambiguity.
The first question that an interim CEO needs to ask is, why am I here?
What am I doing this for?
What am I trying to accomplish?
Am I coming in as a transformer?
Am I coming in to stabilize the company?
What is the purpose of my mission here?
There are typically different circumstances.
It could be that the individual's coming in to take over a very stable situation, and the job may be simply to keep the ship afloat during a period of transition.
Alternatively, the company could be in crisis, and that might require more bolder and more robust action.
I can think of a client that we worked with not too long ago who was serving as actually chairman of the board.
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