Libin: CEOs face more stress during normal operations than crises
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Phil Libin, co-founder of All Turtles and former Evernote CEO, discusses founder psychology and managing company emergencies.
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“When things are sharply going wrong, it's actually the part of the job that's, in many ways, the simplest, because you know what you have to do, and then you just do it. And you have like, you have one major objective. The objective is clear. And even if it's dire, it's still like, it's not necessarily complex. And so that, that clarity, that simplicity is actually refreshing and energizing. And in fact, like I feel much more stress and just about every CEO I know feels much more stress when things are going generally okay, because then you've got 10,000 things to work on.”
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