首席执行官以不同的方式领导组织。一些重要的方法领导组织和参与的员工-以身作则；商业智能的领先；情绪智力与领导；领导的激励；领导的启示。在一些案件中，首席执行官，成功地领导组织利用“魅力”。
A CEO leads an organization in different ways. Some of the important methods of leading the organization and engaging employees are - leading by example; leading with commercial intelligence; leading with emotional intelligence; leading by motivation; leading by inspiration[u3][u4]. In some of the cases CEOs successfully lead organization with the help of ‘charisma’[u5].
Many CEOs have proved themselves by leading employees to follow in the right direction by giving right examples themselves[u6]. Company executives and employees imitate those examples shown by CEOs and steer companies to successes. For example, in many advertising companies, consulting organization which requires ‘bottoms up’ approach to strategic management, need such methods of leading[u7]. In these cases, CEOs demonstrate certain unique skills each employee should imbibe by examples of the CEOs. Some of the CEOs lead organizations through a higher level of ‘commercial intelligence’ which makes it easy for employees to work effectively and get involved. Many companies in sectors like construction, engineering, IT need such methods of leadership. In other companies CEOs have been very effective leaders through excellent use of ‘emotional intelligence’. In such companies CEOs are able to create strong connect with executives, employees and associates who perform better than the industry norms and move the companies to great successes. Such leadership methods have been commonly found in companies belonging to such sectors as coal mining, agro based manufacturing, handicrafts manufacturing among others[u8]. In such companies many semi-skilled workers are motivated and engaged through emotional connect with their leaders.
In some of the cases CEOs have been very successful through ‘charismatic’ leadership. However these cases are not very common. Many CEOs who have spearheaded meteoric rise of their companies in the past, even as a result of external enabling environment, sometimes are able to demonstrate charismatic leadership which goes well with the success stories of such companies. This kind of leaderships can exist in any type of industrial sectors. On the other side, certain CEOs are very good motivators which is the result of their personal skills. By constantly motivating their employees they are able to achieve successful results. Again such methods can be effective in any kind of industries. There have been various other methods of leading organizations and engaging employees used by successful CEOs in different countries of the world[u9].
In fact it is also argued by some of the research studies that several CEO’s methods of leading a company may also vary according to culture of the country of operations of the company. It is further argued that receptiveness of a particular method of leading an organization could be the result of specific culture of the country where employees are motivated to work in certain kind leadership styles adopted by their CEO. For example in case of India it has been argued that a leadership style of being ‘parental taskmaster’ works best in most of the business sectors in that country. It can be easily inferred that no single method of leading could be a guarantee for success in different kinds of cultural and business environments. Some modern ways of leading to success has been found in global companieswherein CEOs have improved performance through infusing cultural diversity. Man
